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or Mahā-vrata of the clerics. The five minor vows for the laity are abstention from 1. Intentional gross violence, 2. Intentional gross lies, 3. Intentional gross thefts, 4. Intentional gross violations of the sexual discipline and 5. Unlimited possessions and conspicuous consumption. There are seven other supporting vows which help them in flawless observance of these basic vows and promoting the social harmony between the members of the religious order. These wows go to create a sound personal life and a harmonious social order in which an individual member can lead a life of satisfaction and contentment that is devoid of undue tensions and frictions arising from leading unregulated lives that infringe upon the lives of the others by treading on their toes. Need we to mention that such life is the life full of pleasure, contentment, satisfaction and happiness.
Conclusion -
We can conclude this essay by saying that Jaina tenets and a life led in accordance with their dictates is a life free of tensions, grudges, discontentment, dissatisfaction and attendant misery and full of relief, harmony, contentment, satisfaction and attendant happiness.
In other words - Jaina way of life is the answer to personal happiness.
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