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beings of water-body. Some ascetics, belonging to the Sramana tradition, used to profess, "We perpetrate violence only for food and for no other purpose."
When Bhagavān Mahavira's disciples used to pass through the paths of the jungle, there was a derth of 'inani
water (cf. 1/54-55). In many cases monks died of thirst. It is probable that a question might have been raised as to what harm might accrue from drinking animate water under those dire circumstances.
Bhagavān Mahāvira, after weighing the pros and cons of the issue, observed that an aspirant whose mind was filled with a dormant feeling of violence even towards a single system of beings could not stride the path of absolute non-violence.
१५१. सुहट्ठी लालप्पमाणे सएण दुक्खेण मूढे विपरियासमुवेति। 151. Suhatthí lālappamāṇe saeņa dukkheņa mūdhe vippariya
samuveti. 151. Actuated by the desire for pleasure, one (indulges in
acquisitiveness). He repeatedly hankers after (pleasure). Consequently haunted by his desires, he gets benumbed and earns sorrows, although yearning
for pleasure. १५२. सएण विष्पमाएण, पुढो वयं पकुवति। 152. Saeņa vippamãena pudho vayam pakuvvati. 152. It is his own excessive stupor that engenders the
cyclel of birth and death.
१५३. जंसिमे पाणा पव्वहिया । पडिलेहाए णो णिकरणाए। 153. Jamsime pāņā pavvahiyā. Padilehāe ņo nikaranāe. 1. In the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa we find the term 'vaya' used
in the sense of gati' - "Vayah suvarna upasedurindra mityutta mayā paridadhāti. " Sāyaṇācārya also has used vaya to mean gati in his bhāsya "Veterdhātorgatyarthasya vaya iti rūpam" (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, Adhyāya 12, Khanda 8.)
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