Jainism the Creed for All Times

SR No.: 006564
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

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3. Industrial or Occupational Violence (Udyogi Himisā)
This type of violence is unavoidable for the householders when they pursue various vocations for earning a livelihood. The examples of this kind of violence are agricultural and industrial activities. This may be termed as essential violence but only in some cases where the intention is to earn a livelihood through the practice of minimum violence. While even deliberate but necessary violence towards the static uni-sensory (one sensed) living beings, such as plants, earth, water, air, fire, etc. is permissible, the householders are forbidden to practise deliberate and intentional violence towards mobile bi-sensory (two-sensed) and higher forms of life. Even the lay followers of the Jaina faith are not supposed to pursue highly violent vocations such as running slaughter houses or plying the trade of butchers, poultry farming,
cutting of forests, making of charcoals, etc. 4. Essential Violence (Arambhi Himsā) - This type of
violence is always unintentional and is necessary for performing various kinds of tasks necessary to lead a normal and meaningful life. The examples of such violence are walking, talking, bathing, washing and carrying out various household chores such as cooking,
cleaning etc. Who are the victims of violence?
Having considered violence and its manifestations we must deliberate on the victims of violence if we wish to get rid of gross or fine violence from our lives. As the readers must have gathered by now that violence being an aggression on one or more vitalities of the living beings its victims are all kinds of living beings with four to ten vitalities. The unintentional violence towards fine creatures of uni-sensory (one sensed) category with only four types of vitality is, generally, unavoidable and is termed
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