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JAINISM
The result of the observance of this vow is that you are trusted, and in that way you prosper. Also the character is developed. If the choice not to stcal is not made, or if it is soiled, then the result is untrustworthiness, also there is legal punishment, also you cannot carry out your ideas on account of not being trusted. And in the future life you are dependent upon others for your maintenance, and are in a miserable state.
The following are illustrations of partial transgressions of this vow* : --
1. Giving orders to thieves to go on with their work; or supplying or manufacturing burglars' tools.
2. Buying or accepting stolen property; you have possession, without the consent of the real owner, although you did not actually steal it.
3. Smuggling: also supplying an enemy with goods in time of war.
4. Using false weights and measures. 5. Counterfeiting, adulterating, etc.
FOURTH VOW
(SVA-DARA-SANTOSHA, PARA-DARA-VIRAMANA VRATA)
The fourth special rule for laymen is with reference to the sex passion. It is sometimes spoken of as the act of procreation; but this is not accurate, because there is not that motive, as is shown by the facts that preventatives are adopted, that the act is done in secret, more than once a year, and is acknowledged with shame. In order to
* Tattvartha, s. VII. 22. Yogasastra, III. 92.
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