Saman suttam Part 1

SR No.: 008022
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 119
Language: Prakrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 6 MB

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In the popular literature it has been said that because of In the cating meat even the learned persons who move in the sky by means of supernormal powers, fell on the ground ( and became devoid of supernormal powers). Nobody, therefore, should use mcat
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Owing to drinking man becomes without any self-control and commits reprehensible actions. Consequently, he experiences endless suffering in this life and the next. By him in whose mind there exists devotion to the Jina (spiritually victorious), which (devotion) has been procreated through detachment from the world, which is the procreator of detachment from the world, which is devoid of the sting of worldly purpose, which is unwavering like the Meru mountain and which is steady, no anxiety is experienced (by him) in the world. Since even the enemy of an humble-natured man gradually develops amity with him, humbleness through mind, body and speech should be practised by the householder, Abstention from the killing of beings, from falsehood, from unlimited desire, from taking (things) without their having been given (by the owner) and abstention from possessing another man's wife ( or from possessing another woman's husband) - all these are (five) Anuvratas (partial vows) The person whose mind is vitiated by anger, greed, deceit, etc. (he) (having been under their dominance) should neither restrain animals, man, etc., nor strike them, nor overload them, nor cause injury to their bodily parts, nor stop their food and water. Abstention from ordinary falsehood is second (Anuvrata). That admits of five kinds, namely,abstention from falsehood regarding one's own daughter, animal and land, abstention from the taking away of entrusted money and from bearing false witness- ( these are the five kinds of abstention from falsehoods). The person should eschew these, namely, the tendency of unthoughtfully attributing false charges, the action of fake writing, impetuously disclosing the secret will of one's own wife (or of one's own husband), and the association of those who are the instructors of unethical modes of life
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