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Jain savants. They too have had to make a distinction between the rules of conduct both for the monks and the laity. A Jain monk should rigidly follow the principle of nonkilling so much so that he is even forbidden to take the life of an organism that has but one sense. But this rigidity, relaxes when the question of the laity comes in. The ordinary folk are forbidden to take the life of any organsm possessed with two or more senseorganis. It is interesting to note that this Himså is of two kinds-Drurya and Bhåva i.e. Actual and Psychical. The psychical precedes the actual and is that kind of mental attitude which gives rise to the desire of taking life in one form or other, and Dravya himsa is the practically killing away of life somehow or other. (2) Asatya Mrisavåda untruthfulness.If
Himsa is one of the most heinous of sins, Asatya is also no less so. Telling lies eats into moral vitality of one who tells it and habitual liars have no chance of gaining any knowledge for moral and spiritual redemption.
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