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intact experiences when pierced. A single-senseorgan living being undergoes similar type of infliction when being meddled. In a verse in the first amga cr mga of 12 Amgas, in the context of prohibiting violence, it is mentioned 'Buddham jajjara theram', the meaning of this verse is just by mere touch, the immobile single-senseorgan being experiences excruciating pain. Hence even the immobile single senseorgan beings also should not be inflicted for any purpose, even for attaining heaven and salvation, and even others should be discouraged from such acts; one should not consent to do so and should not approve it as a good deed.
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Here the point of contemplation for a neutral reader or person is - in any tyrannical country, even a hypocritical person, who makes a law, feels that certain points need some exceptions. He makes a counter-provision for that particular point providing exception. Similarly if hurting a single-senseorgan living being is essential to perform idol worship, that exception would have been a special mention in cr mga.
If while making law, even if a hypocrite, the law maker takes full care and ensures that no error is omitted in that law. When this is the case with a normal human being, attributing negligence to omniscient Trthamkara, Lord Mah v ra, and saying that he might have ignored or forgotten to mention those exceptions while revealing the nature of Dharma to the people during his first preaching at the commencement of Holy Path, is illogical. Only vicious and mendacious persons can utter such things.
rama Lord Mah v ra said that inflicting pain to six kinds of life forms, i.e. earth, water, fire, air and vegetative beings is ignorance and evil and becomes a cause of appalling transmigration cycle.
If there is even a remote chance of attaining salvation for an observer or non-observer of vows, by inflicting pain to or killing any of these six kinds of life forms, then Lord Mah v ra, who had commenced the path of liberation to relieve the human beings who were crushed under the infinite sorrows of mundane world, would have in his first sermon, mentioned the exception that immobile 5 nik ya beings may be injured or killed for attaining liberation and that in such context, they will neither acquire any sin, nor is it a fault. According to the sacred statement
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