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observance goes against Ahinsa-as when the truth causes the death of some body it can not be really called truth though verbally it may be so. Therefore that truth which brings great calamity on others is really no truth and the Shravaka is not by his vow forced to speak it out.
(3) Asteyanuvrata:--
Not to commit such a robbery or theft as would be punishable.
(4) Brahmacharyanuvrata:--
To look upon all women, except his own wife by marriage, as mothers and daughters.
(5) Parigraha Pariman Vrata:
To limit the possessions is called " Parigraha pariman vrata. "The greed of a man is so powerful that it is ever op the increase. It wants to possess all. He who has thousands today is anxious to possess lacs. When he has lacs tomorrow greed drags him further still and he is deep in the anxiety of possessing crores. Even then it is not satisfied. So long a thing in the three worlds-[ This world, the heavens and the other regions ] remains outside the scope of its possessions it will never be satisfied. Besides who knows that even after the possession of worlds it will be satisfied. That is why the best way for a man is not to pursue greed but to control it. Greed is like a horse. If we ride him we are happy and in comfort but if unfortunately the horse of greed rides us nothing but misery and trouble can be attained by us. Therefore the chief source of happiness is to control all desires, to force in narrower limits those greeds that roam about unhindered and unbriddled. In the fifth Annuvrata this ideal is supported.
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