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limit individual ownership and acquisition, limit individual consumption. Precepts on non-possessiveness (Aparigraha sutra) in Saman-Suttam are in first part Gathas 140-146. The experiment in limiting desires is a challenge to the present economic competitiveness and a rat race of development. The experiment is difficult but in it alone lies the solution to the problem.
(a)Sharing, parting with a part of the resources one acquires;
(b)Building a healthy society.
Aparigraha for Sravakas:
The consciousness of the purity of means awakens in a person faith in non-violence and limitation of desires. He refrains from earning a living by dishonest means. He undertakes only such activities as do not tarnish either his character or that of society.
The result of right means of livelihood are
(a)
clean business and integrity;
(b) refraining from trade band business related to intoxicants, meat, fish, eggs and similar items undesirable for eating;
(c) refraining from activities that involve smuggling;
(d) refraining from trading in arms;
(e) refraining from felling trees and destroying forests.
External Parigraha
Kshetra vastu hiranya suvarna dhana dhanya dasee dasa Kupya pramanti kramaha'
There are nine External parigraha-necessities-for the Sravaka.
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