Faith Knowledge and Conduct

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
C. I—In the Community of the Faithful, compris
ing the four kinds of Pious Souls, engaged in working off their karmas, namely, Saints, Nuns, House-holders and Lay female fol
lowers; II-In the two-fold Path, the Advanced and
Austere and the Preliminary and Qualified, the one for well-disciplined holy Saints and the other for the virtuous amongst men un
able as yet to aspire to Saintship; and III–In the rules of Conduct appertaining to each
of the two Paths, the Saints and the Layman's, consisting in the observance of the five Great (unbending) Vows (non-injuring, Truthfulness, non-stealing, Celibacy and Renunciation of aught that is foreign to Soul's own nature), five kinds of Vigilance (in walking, handling things, speech, eating and the disposal of bodily products) and the three kinds of Controls (affecting the Mind, Speech and the Body) for Saints, and in the twelve vows and the Sallekhanā (the death-bed' vow) for the laity of either
sex.