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While walking on the read of friendship, there will come a time when flow of friendship will become more speedy and greater in dimension. Just as this attitude of friendship goes on getting strength and intensity with the passage of time, a person should extend its sphere by a slow process and include every one in its fold, the citizens as well as the countrymen. (2)
Having cemetned the ties of friendship with human beings, he should next take into consideration the animals, the birds and beasts such as Cow, buffalo, etc. Though it is not possible to cultivate the same type of friendship and the same degree of intensity with birds and beasts as have been cultivated with human beings, the friendship in form of non-injury to them, non-usurping of their natural rights, the absence of anger towards them, non-harassment, of not staring them to death, of not overloading them etc. can surely be developed. The Vikalendriyas, that is to say, the defectives, namely, the beings of two, three and four senses should then become the objects of friendly attitude. These are followed by the Sthavaras, the immovables, such as the Earth bodies, Water bodies, Fire bodies, Wind bodies, and Vegetable bodies. In the case of these last, the meaning of friendly attitude is attitude is that they should be taken care of and no injury, even the least, should be dealt out to them. Having come up so far, the attitude of friendship reaches a climax. It begins from one's own home and ends in the farthest corner of the world. (3)
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