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1. Necessary violence that results from their day-to-day activities such as cooking, cleaning, etc. This type of violence is called Ārambhī Himsă. It can also be purposeful and unrelated or arbitrary. While purposeful violence is condoned, arbitrary violence is not.
2. Intentional Criminal Violence or Aparādhī Sankalpī Himsā, which is committed with criminal intent, is strictly prohibited for the believers.
3. Violence committed in pursuing means of livelihood such as that committed in constructing houses and business premises, digging wells, ploughing and irrigating the land for farming, etc. is termed as industrial violence or Udyogi Himsa and is condoned. And
4. Retaliatory violence or Virodhi Himsā becomes necessary for protecting the self, family and social institutions. Such intentional violence is condoned.
The Monastic Non-violence
As can be expected, all ascetics - monks and nuns -- - observe a much more stringent and rigorous code of conduct with much harsher and stricter mode of non-violence. They observe nonviolence at action and thought levels and neither knowingly kill or hurt any creature nor have them killed or hurt nor approve of any such violence either physically or verbally or volitionally. This is the most important of their monastic vows - Mahāvrataand all their actions and thoughts are directed towards its most careful observance.
Vegetarianism: An Essential Attribute Of Nonviolent Lifestyle -
It is said that the kind of food that a person takes shapes his thoughts. If his very food is derived by the most violent means AHIMSA (NON-VIOLENCE): 81
| SR No. | 006564 |
| Book Title | Jainism the Creed for All Times |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | D S Baya |
| Publisher | Prakrit Bharti Academy |
| Publication Year | 2006 |
| Total Pages | 420 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 20 MB |