Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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JAINISM
RULE 24
He should not act in such a way as to become unnecessarily hostile to the people; he should live in peace with them. (All these rules are for the beginner and not for those strong in spiritual quality.)
RULE 25
With reference to the attitude that he should have towards people who are in a low state of development, his action should be such that they would feel that there is a higher life than their own; he should let them feel the influence of the purer life of honesty, for instance.
RULE 26
He should avoid too much intimacy. He should not be too intimate with anybody.
RULE 27
He should render service to those who have taken spiritual vows and who are experienced in wisdom and knowl. edge. He should do some kind of service to them, and in that way he appreciates the wisdom and vows, with the idea of, in time, becoming like those persons.
The idea here is that man is a social being and must live in company of some sort; therefore he should estab lish certain relationships with the right kind of people, so that by that means he may become virtuous.
RULE 28
This rule is with regard to the objects of life. There are four classes of objects of life, and the person who