Aloyana

Author(s): Hiraji Swami, Gulabchandraji
Publisher: Pradyuman Vora

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royal affluence. I might have shown the path of violence by presenting false scriptures and fancies, or supported wrong path or hypocrisy, or thought of robbing people of their wealth by conspiring with or seeking the help of robbers or gangsters. I might have fancied to increase my popularity and importance by piercing the heart of the enemy with a bow, an arrow, a spear, a dagger, a sword, or a gun. I might have wished to enjoy the status of a king after acquiring strength and valor and capturing big castles, swimming the ocean, and the enemy to bow down at my feet.
I might have found pleasure in possession, or I might have mocked at the ugly or the humpbacked. I might have been proud of my caste, family, or felt a sense of disgust on the dirty clothes of a monk, or mocked at the poor on seeing their old and tattered dress. I might have shown agony and anguish or weeped or beaten my head for separation of desirous things or persons, or to discard undesirable things or persons. I might have been constantly thinking about and planning about how to do things such as beating, killing, or murdering any one, or to commit such sins as violence, falsehood, or theft. I might have kept open the containers of liquids like oil, ghee, water or juices, or kept lamps, or stoves burning, or kept the dishes of leftovers of foods, or urine, or walked over the ground stained with excretion, and phlegm, which are the natural source for minute organisms to grow. I might have thrown the excretion or sputum on the road so that others may crush these minute organisms under their feet. I might have walked on greenery or clay, and scattered them on the road so that others may crush them under their feet. I might have walked over and crushed the small insects like ants and flies. I might have sat on the seeds of sweet or slimy things like berries, gundas, date, or thrown such seeds on the road so that they may have gotten crushed by others. I might have plucked leaves while walking or thrown everywhere harmful things like hot water, fire, caustic salts, or crushed the eggs of birds or small animals like a wall lizard, the fruits of a banyan tree, the blossoms, flowers or fruits of a mango or tamarind tree. I might have covered up anthills, broke up beehives, and tied swings on the branch of a tree. I might have let rise the passions by consuming intoxicating substances like opium, heroin, and marijuana. I might have resorted to ribaldry, or acquired black arts like enchantment, hypnosis, or fascination. I might have forecast omens, or forecast auspicious time for initiating sinful works, or cheated people by resorting to deceit and cunning, or caused fear in others out of fun or curiosity. I might have deceived or distressed, or laid false blames on others; or thought of killing myself or someone else out of anger. I might have thought of being united with the agreeable and to be away from the disagreeable. I might have resorted to lustful talks, increased idleness or carelessness, or failed to practice religious activities in spite of means of my ability, or obstructed others to do religious practices or activities. I might have destroyed the materials for religious practices.
I might have raised animals, hunting dogs, or wild cats, with a wicked intention; or put birds in a cages; collected deadly weapons, like swords, spears, daggers, axes, spades, crowbars, ploughshares, pestles, grinding mills, mortars, spindles, arrows, knives, sickles, or guns. I might have acquired weapons or given to someone else, or asked for them, after mending and making them ready, and felt happy about it, and became happier after giving them to someone else; and thus done such acts of giving harmful things.
I might have unwisely given advice to do sinful businesses, or to dig the earth, or to construct step-wells, wells, or houses; to accumulate cows, buffaloes, horses, or bullocks. I might have given advise to people to do unworthy businesses, or arranged the people to get married, or to produce fire or gas by a machine. I might have advised to cut or chop trees, or to set fields, orchards, threshing floors, the heap of crops, or a forest on fire. I might have given orders to remove the weeds, to bake bricks, or to make the potter's furnace; and thus advised to do businesses in the fifteen type of sinful trades. I might have given advice to commit sin in several ways by preparing foods and drinks, preserving pickles, cutting vegetables, washing clothes, or digging the earth. I might have thus punished my soul by being guilty of committing sinful acts in these four ways though not for self