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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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ring into a tie pin because your number of gold rings is reached, that is subterfuge.
These first five vratas are the minor vratas, previously mentioned. They are so in comparison with the more strict vows of the monk.
the guna viatas, they help
The next three are and support the first five.
GUNA VRATAS.
Sixth vow.
Dig-parimana vrata. Dig means direction. The vow means the choosing to determine the distance up to which and not beyond which you will go or send your men. The limitation of the area in which you will live, including all directions or motion, up, down, etc.
In all activities of a layman there is destruction of life and therfore when he fixes bis area he proclajms to all things beyond that area that he shall not injure them. This vow helps the first and also the other anuvratas.
If we will work out the knowledge obscuring karmas we can know of the things going on abroad without actually going there (compare the avadhi means of knowing in the early part of the karmas.)
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