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Jainism : The Eternal and Universal path for Enlightenment
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Avoiding injury to mobile beings which have two or more senses or desisting from deliberate acts of violence. Truthfulness to avoid false statements out of extreme affection or hatred for someone.
Refraining from taking anything not given. 4. Desisting from sexual relationship with any one other than one's spouse. 5. Voluntarily minimising the possession of all forms of assets.
These can be supplemented by more Aa uvrats such as confining movement within a limited area, saving the environment from wanton destruction, avoiding sinful acts for a predetermined short period of time, observing fast, limiting use of consumable and non consumable goods and sharing food etc with others. These small steps will go a long way as one gets benefited in physical, mental and spiritual health and leads to sustainable environment.
In a typical Jain home it is prohibited to waste food, water and electricity (and other forms of energy) and people try to minimize hurting the feeling of others, by their deeds, speech and thought. Every year a universal day of forgiveness is observed. After a 8 or 10 day period, called Paryushan, of observing various Jain rituals (fasting, maun, samayik, Pratikraman etc), to the extent possible to purify body, mind and soul, everyone seeks forgiveness, not only from those with whom they interact but
JYĀTĀ
JYEYA
JNĀNA
Fig.6.1. The interaction between the knower (jn 't?) and the object (Jneya) via knowledge (jn n) indicating that an observation modifies both the knower and the object, making it impossible to know their "state" completely at any instant by any observation.
