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108 body in an immoveable posture as in the case of Kayatsarga." We have already seen how Mahavira imposed the order on the ascetics not to wear any clothes. Dr. Hoernle sums up the Right conduct;' of Jain ascetics as follows; “Besides these negative vows, Right Conduct includes positive rules enjoining ascetic self-discipline such as penitence and confession, humility and obediencë, religious study and contemplation, and especially various kinds of selfmortification, tapas culminating in religious suicide by starvation.” We may here observe that while in Mahavira's order, selftorture and self-mortification played a very important part, quite the contrary was the case in Buddha's order. Buddha not only disbelieved in the efficacy of self-torture, but he believed it to be, on the contrary injurious to the attainment of the final deliverance. Religious suicide was to him far from being meritorious, it was worse than
useless, it was a great mistake, nay alınost Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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