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PAPA, VICE OR SIN. had to seek the superior principle of the stable pleasure which they found in repose, peace or insensibility so much so that they thought paramount good to consist in "the absence of suffering" or indolentia (dukhåbhåbå).
Thus Papa being found to consist in Subreption (mithyatva) and perversity
Mithy atva (duhshilatva) as manifest in bad-will, the Jain and Dushila
tva constimoralists hold that liberty of vice manifests tute Pápa. itself in and through the eighteen different forms of action as in the following.-- (1) Fiva Hinsha--this means crushing out
the organic energies of an embodied soul. "Ahimså parama dharma'-non-killing of life is the cardinal principle of all true religiosity.'Even the Mimánsaka atheists teach, "må himsyåt sarva bhutani" which means don't kill any life. The only difference between the Jain moralists and Mimąnsaka sages in this respect of himså, is that former take an uncompromising attitude in positively prohibiting the taking of any life; while the
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