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वह केवल अप्कायिक जीवों की ही नहीं, किन्तु उसके आश्रित अनेक प्रकार के अन्य * जीवों की भी हिंसा करता है।
25. Bhagavan has revealed the truth about this.
When a person, for the sake of his life; praise, prestige and the worship; birth, death and liberation; and removal of sorrows,
(for these reasons) himself acts sinfully, causes others to act sinfully, or approves of others acting sinfully against waterbodied beings,
That (sinful act) is detrimental to him. That is the cause of This ignorance.
26. Properly understanding (the bad consequences of violence), he (a disciplined seeker) indulges in adaniya (practicing ascetic-discipline).
By listening to (the sermon of) Bhagavan or anagars (ascetics) it becomes known (to some humans) that—this (violence towards water-bodied beings) is a granthi (a knot or the cause of karmic bondage); this is fondness (illusion); this is (the cause of) death; and this is (the passage to) hell as well.
A person who (in spite of this) has cravings (for pleasures and comforts), employing various types of shastras (weapons) in water related violent activities, causes harm to water-bodied
beings. (Such person) destroys not only water-bodied beings but * also many other types of beings thriving in water. 0 [In some manuscripts after aphorism 25 the text of aphorism 15 has
been repeated in full. This aphorism is also repeated with the description e of fire-bodied beings, plant-bodied beings, mobile-bodied beings and air
bodied beings. Acharya Shri Atmaram ji M. has given this text only once. Giving the reference of Bhagavati Sutra (1/3) he has stated that like earthbodied beings, water-bodied, fire-bodied, plant-bodied, mobile-bodied, and air-bodied beings also suffer pain when cut or pierced.]
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Illustrated Acharanga Sutra
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