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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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EIGHTEEN KINDS OF SINS
Sinful mental inclination gives rise to sin and such inclination is manifold but for practical purpose it is classified into eighteen varieties. They are as follows:
I. Violence-Killing. 2. Falsehood-Telling lies. 3. Theft-Carrying away what is not willingly given.
Cohabitation-Sexual intercourse. Hoarding-Amassing things out of attachment. Anger-Wrath. Pride-Ego. Deceit—Cheating. Greed-Avarice.
Attachment-Passion. II. Malice-Spite, Jealousy. 12. Quarrel-Fights. 13. False allegation-False accusation. 14. Disclosing secrets-Putting to light secrets. 15. Overjoy and Sorrow-Overjoy and dejection. 16. Condemning others. 17. Fraud-Deceit. 18. Wrong faith-false conviction.
All these eighteen forms of sin are covered by violence, falsehood, theft, cohabitation and hoarding as the rest are related with these five sins by causal relations. Main current of sin flows through these channels of five sins.
Non-attachment results in abandoning sins. Let us here clarify what do we exactly mean by abandoning. Abandoning means leaving voluntarily what is worth leaving. What is abandoned unvoluntarily is not considered as abandoned or left. The tale of Subandhu will convince you on this point.
TALE OF SUBANDHU
This is a magnanimous incident recorded in Indian history. After Chandragupta's death Bindusara ascended the throne. Then Subandhu the relative of king Nanda become his minister This Subandhu entertained spite against Chanakya, so he planned
