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(The Lord's Philosophy
Besides these there are hundreds of other rules laid down for Jain Munis to be followed, just as to sleep on ground, to drag the hair out, to go barefooted, not to use umbrell. as etc, Not to cremati a body, to accept no invitation to dinner, to bear ratiently the 22 Parishahas ( troubles ) like, hunger & thirsh heap & colf, mosgits & other biter; to obser. ve the ten rules like forgiveness, humility tenderness etc; to meditate upon the 12 subjects like, transiteriness of the world, helplessness, unity etc.
The Lord Mahavir has also laid down for Shravakag ( house holders) Anuvratas, Gunavratas and Shiksha Vratas these are called 12 Vratas ( vows ) They are briefly as follows:
(1) Ahimsanuvrata:-Knowingly not to kill or give Pouble to innocent Trasa beings (i. é. ) living things with more than one sense and to keep away from the killing of Sthawrs beings. ( i. e. living things with one sense only ) as far as possible. A little study of the scope of this Anuvrata will make it clear that Lord Mahavir has successfully made Ahimsa (non-voilence ) practicable. It is clearly detailed how far a man can be free from "Himsa"( voilenco ) in different stages and a way is shown for gradual development to higher stages. As this subject has been dealt with in detail at another place we proceed further leaving the discussion of Ahimsa here.
(2) Satyanuvrata:
Not to utter falsehood as can be punished by the king or the "Panchayat" i. e. as will lead to loss to general publio. It must be remembered that the vratas like utterance of truth are supplementary to "Ahimsa". Therefore if their
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