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the one body, such as carrots, turnips, potatoes (things that grow underground). But there is more to be said on this point.
2. In regard to the activities in which the layman should engage in order to obtain the things he uses; they shobld be faultless, sinless (but not sin in the Christian sense, sin here means sin agaiost your own soul, obstructing its virtues). If he is unable to avoid sinless business then he should give up such trades as involve cruelty to animals.
Aticharas*.
Such bussiness as the following fifteen should not be practised by those who have taken the seventh vow.
1. Making and selling charcoal.
2. Agriculture, horticulture or gardening.
3. Making and selling carts, etc., or driving vehicles belonging to Oneself.
*The portion till the seventh Vrata is given by Mr. Gandhi and we could not get the rest of the Vratas treated by him. I have therefore arranged to supply this gap, from the atichara of the seventh Vrata, til the end of the book Ed.
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