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from the Jain laity. The latter are under regulations more bumane and more easy to accomplish. Like theft, and false-hood, intentional, and wilful murder, they are forbidden. They must show charity to their fellow-beings, and be gentle towards animals; for them, the vow of chastity assumes the more modest dimensions of conjugal fidelity. By a strict honesty, and probity, they must not seek to augment their fortune immeasurably. They must be sober, and must abstain from strong liquors, and such and such food-for example meat-88 it would necessitate the death of an animal For the same reason, the profession of agriculture is forbidden to them, for the point of the harrow in breaking up the ground, kjlls a multitude of insects In a word, for the laity, Jaina ethics descends to the level of normal life the life of all, and of every day. However, it is not, therefore, the less grandly austere in demanding of the individual, everything that renders the soul strong, compassionate, and resigned.
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