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They never speak emphatically about the future. " (3) Asteya ( Non-stealing ) Mahavrata:--Never to take even any unimportant thing, even of the smallest value, without the permission of the owner. To follow this Shramanas never take even dry grass and earth without permfssion. Where there is none to give permission, in the lonely jungles etc., if they are in need of earth or a pebble they take it after obtaining mental permission from Indra.
(4) Brahmacharya ( celibacy ) Mahavrata:--To look upon women with the purest feeling' of love thinking them to be mothers or daughters. This is the broad symbol of this "Vrata". The more comprehensive application is in making the five senses and the mind subservient to the soul and to merge them in it. The Munis practise this Vrata with a view to this comprehensive application.
(5) Parigraha-tyaga (Complete renunciation of property ) Mahavrata:--
To give up completely property is called “Parigrahatyaga Mahayrata”. To follow it the Jain Munies keep not a pie, nothing of any value whatever, with them.
The Lord Mahavir has also laid down supplementary rules that help unhindered observance of these five great rules of conduct, as for example 3 Guptis, (controls) 5 Samiti etc. Controlling the inclinations of speech, body and mind are the three Gupties. This is a hard and intrinsically diffi. cult task. Speech and body can be easily controlled, for a time, but to control the mind, more restless than the foaming and roaring waves of the sea, more quick then the lightning and more volatile than camppor, is not a child's play. Yet
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