Five Vows And Six Avashyakas

Author(s): Klaus Bruhn
Publisher: Klaus Bruhn

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Avashyaka I: Samayika
The first Avashyaka is a moral declaration. It is based on an old formula of the Jaina tradition which has been slightly extended so as to form a self-contained element of the sixfold Avashyaka sequence.
The Samayika introduces the subject of repentance which is prominent in the Avashyaka-Sutra (I, III-V). The related subjects of confession -- and atonement -- are not mentioned in the Sutra. Terms of this "atonement cycle" surface in different canonical texts, but a full discussion is only found in the works on monastic discipline. It would thus not be correct to interpret Jainism as a religion where repentance is of pivotal importance.
Translation I engage, your reverence, in the Samaiya: I renounce all wrongdoing for all my life
Text karemi bhante Samaiyam: savvam savajjam jogam paccakkhami
javaj-jivae tiviham tivihenam: manasa vayasa kayasa, na karemi, na karavemi, karentam pi annam
na samanujanami.
thrice threefold -- neither with mind nor speech nor body will I do it or cause it to be done by others) or approve of others
doing it. I repent such wrongdoing, your reverence. I reprehend and censure and abandon myself ["abandon myself":
expression of remorse].
tassa bhante padikkamami nindami garihami
appanam vosirami.
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