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As far as the future life is concerned there is the higher state and the deva state. If the vow is not taken or you soil it, then the result is untrustworthiness, you cannot carry out your ideas ; and then also there is legal punishment, and then in the future state there is a miserable state in which you are all the time in dependence for your maintenance.
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 himn “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 atichāra.
3. Using false weights and measures ; you do not actually steal, but you get more 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
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