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COMPREHENSION AND RENUNCIATION OF WEAPONS
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15. See! almost everywhere the passionate men are tor
menting (beings of earth-body).
ANNOTATION 15: Sex, luxury, anger, fear, pleasure, etc. are the various kinds of passions. While he seeks objects to satiate his passion (of sex, of pleasure etc.) a passionate man causes violence, Passion is the cause of mental perturbance. A perturbed man falls an easy prey to desire and indulges in violence.
88. Hifat grant get ferari 16. Samti pāņā pudhosiyā. 16. (Each of the) beings of earth-body) has its own body
to inhabit.
ANNOTATION 16: Gautama, the chief disciple of Bhagavan Mahavira asked - Bhagavān! whether one, two, three, four or five beings of earth-body collectively build one body, absorb nutrients for sustenance, assimilate those nutrients and then through the assimilation build the body?
Bhagavān.--No, they do not do so. Each of the beings of earth-body builds a different (individual) body. It also takes and assimilates its food (nutrients) individually.
१७. लजमाणा पुढो पास। 17. Lajjamāņā pudho pāsa. 17. See: Every (ascetic who has ceased from causing vio
lence' to these beings ) leads a life of self-discipline,
१८. अणगारा मोत्ति एगे पवयमाणा। 18. Anagā rā motti ege pavayamāņā. 18. (And discern from them) those pseudo-monks, who,
despite professing, "we are mendicants", (act like 1. By vidence (himsā)is meant all actions of injuring,
hurting, causing harm, killing, etc.
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