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The flaws of this vow are: Binding living beings in captivity, beating living beings, mutilating limbs, overloading excessive weight on living beings, withdrawing or providing insufficient food or water to living beings.
Truth: To speak / present an entity exactly as it is, neither less nor more." The vow is to refrain from Asatya or lying of any sort. Jains see a close connection between Asatya and Himsa, since all lying is volitional and tainted by some operation of the passions, thus soul is injured by such activity. In its broader sense, the Satya-anuvrata requires great care with regard to expressions in all forms like all acts of speech, writing. Thus, even a truthful statement cannot be uttered if it leads to pain/ destruction of a living being.
Flaws are: Untruth pertaining to ownership, forgery or adulteration of goods, misrepresentation as witness, divulging secrets of others, using harsh language."
Non-Stealing: Not to accept things without the permission of their lawful owner. It is broadly defined as Adattadana-virati or refraining from taking anything, which is not given. Here the word 'given' means acquired through a legitimate transaction. Thus the householder who undertakes this vow is not allowed even to pick-up goods, which have been lost or forgotten.
Flaws: pick up goods not given, employing thieves to obtain things, receiving stolen merchandise, using false weights and measures, adulterating commodities, accepting goods without paying or under paying the required taxes and levies by the government. 38
Celibacy: To indulge in sexual activities with the religiously wedded spouse only." It differs from all other vows in its double formation: positive in the sense of contentment with one's own wife i.e. Sva-dara-santosha and negative as avoidance of the wives or unmarried females of others i.e. Apara-dara-gamana. According to this Vrata the person refrains from all types of sex passions. The sex passions imply materialistic pleasures of all
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