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Tattvarthasutra 1. Eriyasamiti - To prevent any creature (living being) from suffering, one should walk with caution. 2. Bhashasamiti - Speak the truth, beneficially, in a familiar manner, and without doubt. 3. Eshanasamiti - Engage cautiously in gathering necessary and flawless means for the journey of life. 4. Adananikshapasamiti - Properly observe and cleanly take or keep any object. 5. Utsargasamiti - Safely and cleanly discard useless items only in lifeless regions.
Question - What is the difference between Gupti and Samiti?
Answer - Gupti emphasizes the prohibition of inaction, while Samiti emphasizes the enforcement of action. 5.
The distinctions of Dharma: The best are forgiveness, gentleness, honesty, purity, truth, restraint, austerity, renunciation, non-possessiveness, and celibacy.
Forgiveness and other virtues are implemented in life to eliminate faults such as anger; therefore, these virtues are said to be the means of self-restraint. When the ten types of Dharma such as forgiveness are accompanied by the prominence of fundamental virtues like non-violence, truth, etc., and secondary virtues like place and dietary purity, only then do they constitute the renounced Dharma; otherwise, they do not. Generally, it is understood that forgiveness and other virtues devoid of the prominence of fundamental or secondary virtues, though they may be referred to as common Dharma, cannot be categorized as renounced Dharma. These ten Dharmas are as follows:
1. Forgiveness - To remain patient, that is, to prevent the arising of anger and to nullify any anger that arises through discrimination and humility. The practice of forgiveness has five methods: contemplating whether there is a cause for anger within oneself or not, reflecting on the faults of the anger tendency, considering the nature of a child, pondering the results of one’s own actions, and contemplating the qualities of forgiveness.
(k) When someone gets angry, seek the cause within oneself. If the cause of another person's anger is visible in oneself, consider it to be one's own fault; the others' words are true. Perhaps the cause of another’s anger is within oneself.