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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
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These 12 vratas are the special dharma of the layman, which was mentioned under the heading of dharma.
Aticharas.
The following five things will illustrate what partial transgression of the vow consists of:
1. Accepting or buying stolen property; you did not actually steal it, but you have possession of it without the real owner's consent..
2. Giving orders to thieves. If a man is known by you to be a thief and you say to him “ Why are you idle ?” “Go on with your business' it is the Same thing as telling him to steal. And the manufacture or supplying of burglars' tools is an atichara,
3. Using false weights and measures: you do not actually steal, but you get inore money from the person than you ought to get.
4. Smuggling, you steal from the government. This would include supplying an enemy with goods in time of war. (If you do not want war, get away from the nation and become a citizen of a peace loring people who do not go to war.)
5. Counterfeiting or imitating. That is, selling things as one thing when they are really another. This would include the adulteration of foods etc.
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