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(111) Gambling : Wherever there is a source of income
by immoral means and without endeavour, it should be included in the category of gambling. From this point of view, the wagering contracts and blackmarket professions are also worth to be abandoned. Money earned without labour is misused in encourag.
ing vicious habits. (iv) Theft : The explaination of theft is also to be comp
rehended very minutely. To usurp by overt or secret means the income earned by efforts of others' is also theft. This is also the form of to-day's economic exploitation. Evasion of taxes is also another form of theft. Theft always throttles the truth, hence it is also worth to be abstained.
Hunting Games : To take out the lives of other beings for personal amusement is repugnant to the
spirit of protecting all beings. (vi) Debauchery : In order to maintain the salubriousness
of sex, the institution of marriage system was brought in vogue. The force of lewdness is very powerful and in order to regularise it and restrain it, the vow of satisfaction with own wife has been prescribed for a householder. If this voluptuousness be let loose blindly, it will give rise to a series of aggressions and offences limitlessly (account). Debauchery is an abominable offence for this reason also that such a wicked person ruins the chastity of two, or
more than two families. (vii) Co-habitation : With a prostitute : This addiction
is fatal to the whole of the society. it degenerates
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