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concerned. For those who undertake to refrain from telling gross lies, a false document made intentionally is a breach of the vow.
5. Divulging the secrets of wife, or friend, unintentionally.
These vows are undertakings to exercise self-control and kindness, so as to refrain from injuring others; and when, as in the above transgressions, there is both rashness or carelessness of speech, and the speech is harmful to some one, then there is partial transgression, even if the actual words used are true; the vow is not fully carried out in such cases.
FRUITS
The results of observing this vow are that people trust you; that you accomplish your best objects (otherwise you try to do something and fail); you are liked; and then there are good results which come in the future life.
THIRD VOW
(STHULA-ADATTADANA-VIRAMANA VRATA) Refraining from gross forms of taking what is not given: theft.
The idea in theft is taking other people's property, without the consent of the owner. The gross form is when the thing taken is considered by its owner to have a value, and the mild form is when the thing taken is not considered by the owner or, generally, to have any value. The Inild form is not a breach of the vow, but those who take
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