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Jaina Acāra : Siddhānta aura Swarupa
79 (3) Apakvāharā—When you do not eat a thing with life, to eat raw vegetables and fruit.
(4) Duspakyahāra-To eat half-baked food.
(5) TucchosadhibhaksanaWhich gives you little to eat and much to be thrown out as a custard apple (Sītaphala).
They should be made applicable to cloths, bathing, smearing etc. Samantabhadra has mentioned transgressions in a different form. They are (1) To take notice of sexual passion which is very much like poision. (2) Repeatedly to recall sexual contacts. (3) To have a strong craving for sex. (4) To have an insatiable yearning for them again and again (5) To be completely absorbed in them so as to be forgetful of your duty. While nursing all such desires, the observance of a vow becomes merely mechanical and hence so very insubstantial. Lay votaries should abstain from them. Even then if tainted, they should expiate for it in order to remove all dross.
Fifteen 'Karmādāna' i.e. prohibited business. No householder can desist from sin altogether. His attempt is to lead an ethical life as far as possible. Any business that involves great violence is not to be adopted by him. Bhagavati Sūtra says that a lay votary leads his life in the light of religion. He is content with whatever he earns lawfully. His life is saturated with righteousness on account of which he cannot easily be deviated from his good conduct. In a word, he never wilfully indulges in any violence. There are fifteen kinds of prohibited businesses as given below:
(1) Angārakarma, i.e. business relating to fire such as coal and brick.
(2) Vanakarma, i.e. business relating to vegetation such as felling trees, uprooting grass which lead to the diminution of forest animals.
(3) Sakatakarma, i.e. business in a factory which produces cars and the like. Tongas and rickshaws also come under this head.
(4) Bhātakarma, i.e. business in hiring conveyances.
(5) Sphotakarma, i.e. business of splitting land, mines, canals, and house construction come under this head. Some people include agriculture, but it is not right because herein land is only raked or scooped and not split at all.
(6) Business in teeth, e.g.ivory business. (7) Laksa, i.e. business in shellac. (8) Rasa, i.e. liquid as business in wine. (9) Kesa, i.e. as business in hair and animals' growing hair.
(10) Visa, i.e. poison-as business in poisonous substances or manufacturing weapons, missiles etc.
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