Interpretation Of Jain Ethics

Author(s): Charlotte Krause
Publisher: Yashovijay Jain Granthmala

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gardeners and representatives of various other trades more or less connected with injury.
The Third Guna-Vrata, or Anartha-Danda-Vrata, for bids certain harmful actions not included in the First AnuVrata, viz., 1. Cherishing evil thoughts, 2. Indulging in alcoholic, sexual, and emotional inebriation, as well as in bad talk, or in defamation, 3. practising injury, and 4. giving suggestions concerning sinful actions to be done by others. This Vrata is of great practical import, because he who keeps it, cannot possess domestic animals, nor do agricultural nor gardening work, nor see a performance in a circus, elephant fighting, etc.
The Siksha-Vratas. The Siksha-Vratas are vows with reference to certain religious performances or actions to be done, throughout one's life, in regular intervals, the duration of which one fixes at the time of taking the Vratas.
The First Siksha-Vrata is the Samayika-Vrata, by which the Sravaka promises to perform, in certain intervals, the “Samayika- Kriya". The latter consists in sitting down, under the performance of certain formalities, for about forty-eight minutes, on a clean carpet, having put on clean clothes, and keeping one's mind concentrated.on some religious activity, such as reading a religious book, discussing religious subjects, meditating etc. For the duration of this time, the Sravaka vows to give up doing, and causing to be done, evil thoughts, words, and actions, nearly.coming up to the moral standard of an ascetic for the time being. . .. .. ..
By the Second Siksha-Vrata, or the Desavakasika. Vrata, he promises daily to fix a new limit. within the