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means, protecting acquired wealth, etc. It includes brooding over the enjoyments of the forbidden sexual and other worldly pleasures. To revel in the constant thoughts of one's achievements in the fields of sinful and vicious activities is also a form of evil brooding of this type.
Purposeless evil activity due to negligence (pramāda) Though an individual and a society can meet their necessities without any harassment, by things whose production involves very little violence, yet if they use those things whose production involves large scale violence, then they do incur the defect of purposeless evil activity due to negligence.
Purposeless evil inactivity due to idleness (pramāda) Though one has strength, skill and time to work for one's own comforts and to do one's own personal works, yet if one throws the burden of one's own personal works and comforts on others (that is, on one's servants and dependents) and one remains idle for oneself, then one is defiled by purposeless evil inactivity due to idleness.
Purpose of Sāmāyika The purpose of sāmāyika is the cultivation of equal goodwill (sympathy), equality and evenness, and tranquillity. I. Equal goodwill (sympathy) (samabhāva)
1. towards all religions 2. towards all races and castes
3. towards a man and a woman II. Equality and evenness (samatā)
1. to regard all living beings equal with one's own self 2. to maintain evenness (equanimity) of mind on all occasions,
favourable and adverse III. Tranquillity (sama)
to suppress and weaken passions.
About Vows in General
Regarding vows, the Jaina scriptures declare that to become a true vowpractiser first one should be free from the thorns. In brief, the thorns
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