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To entertain a doubt about the fruit of one's actions.
To be impressed by a heretical sect and to praise it.
To come in contact with heretics.
If I am guilty of any of these five wrongdoings concerning observing the right religion, I wish they be set aside. Under the influence of superstition, I might have cherished heretical belief whether pertaining to this world or to the other. I might have done special activity regarding such religion, or watered the trees, lighted lamps, killed animals, or offered sacrifice, oblation to gods or goddesses, family members or ancestors, to guardians of directions, or to the guardian of the farm. I might have believed trees, rivers, lakes, posts, or monumental pillars as saviours. I could have believed ordinary festivals to be extraordinary, or believed extraordinary festivals to be ordinary.
I might have made a religious promise (manata), before a tabut or a prophet, or made such a promise before a guru for worldly happiness. With a view to obtain Moksha, I might have considered someone as a saviour though he is not a saviour. I might have contacted a nonconformist shravak or a monk of lax conduct and helped him in his lax conduct or increased his lack of restraint or encouraged it. I could have considered a good monk to be evil and vice versa. I might have considered a duty not to be a duty and what is not a duty to be a duty, an evil path to be the right path and the right one to be evil. Thus, I might have entertained any of these perversities, submitted to passions which destroy righteousness, or censured or disregarded a righteous soul. I might have been ungrateful to such a person, insulted him or obstructed him in achieving righteousness, or envied or hated such a person. I might have contradicted or looked down on a righteous person, and offended him against any of the eightfold conducts related to following the right religion. For instance,
One should not doubt the preachings of the Jina.
One should not long for any other religious sect.
One should not have doubt about the reward of righteousness.
One should be confounded on seeing the outward show of various other sects. One should bring out and propagate the merits of the religion expounded by the Jina. One should reestablish those who have fallen from religion, into the religion.
One should be serviceable and devoted to the fellow followers of the religion. One should propagate and glorify the pure words of the Tirthankar.
NONVIOLENCE
I reflect on and confess the wrongdoing if any concerning the abstention from the gross killing of living beings, which is the first vow. If I have been guilty of any wrongdoings, then I request for forgiveness and be my sins nullified.
I might have used rotten grain like corn, wheat, millet, or pulses without cleaning them; or out of greed, I might have traded in rotten foodstuffs. I might have killed mobile beings like larvae and fish, while bathing with unfiltered water or while filling or emptying unfiltered water. I might have used or drank such water. I might have caused filthiness by pouring water and given rise to
disease-causing insects like gnats and mosquitoes. I might have polluted air. I might have burnt firewood before properly examining them. I might have lighted a fireplace or a charcoal stove, or heated a baking-plate, without cleaning them. I might have lighted lamps while keeping them open, or killed the insects in the air with a fan.
During my ordinary movements or some other activity, I might have killed, harassed, or distressed small insects like ants, butterflies, earthworms, flies, or searched for them, thrown them on the road or crushed them under feet, or thrown them off their place. I might have displaced lice, bedbugs, ticks, or thrown on the road, or killed them. I might have harassed snakes, centipedes,
