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Just as pain is not dear to you so also having known in this way for all other Jivas (beings), you should give affection to all the Jivas (beings) adequately. And by reason of the equality with yourself, you should give sympathy to all of them.
Killing a Jive (being) is killing one's own self; compassion for the Jiva (being) is compassion for one's own self. By reason of this, injury to all the Jivas (beings) has been abandoned by those desirous of selfrealization.
Just as in the world there is nothing higher than the Meru mountain and nothing more extended than the sky, so also (in the world) there is no virtue (excellent and universal) corresponding to Ahimsa (nonviolence) know this.
The supra-worldly purposes and the best purposes in the world in regard to the sleeping men perish, so waking, all of you should annihilate the old Karmas (psycho-physical impurities).
O men! always wake up (beware). The intellect of the waking (bewaring) sharpens. He who sleeps (ignores spiritual values) does not become happy, (but) he who always wakes up (adheres to spiritual values) becomes happy.
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