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caused; he too knows that in Jinavani (omniscients preachings) it is stated that here mobile beings are found but he has no intention of causing injury to mobile beings and he does not indulge in such injury which in worldly affairs is called injury of mobile beings. Therefore, from this point of view, he is the renouncer of injury to mobile beings.
Further, the monk (muni) is said to be the renouncer of injury even to one-sensed (immoble) beings, but the monks make movement, etc. on earth and in water etc.; there the total absence of even mobile beings is not found because the space occupied even by mobile beings is so small that it may not be perceivable by eyes and their existence is found on earth and in water, etc. only — this, the monks know from Jinavani (scriptures) and some monks know this through clairvoyance, etc. also, but they do not have intention of committing injury to mobile-immobile beings by negligence. And in the world, indulgence in activities like digging of earth and use of unboiled water, etc. is called injury to immobile beings and causing injury to gross mobile beings is called injury to mobile beings. The monks do not indulge in these activities, therefore, the monk is said to be the total renouncer of injury. From the same point of view he is stated to be the renouncer of untruth, theft, chastity and possessions.
From the viewpoint of omniscience, the false-speech-vibration (in the soul) is stated to be present upto twelfth Gunasthana, the assimilation of Adatta-karma Parmanus (specific atoms), etc. other non-self substance upto thirteenth Gunasthana, the rise of sex-passion upto ninth Gunasthana, internal attachement upto tenth Gunasthana. The external possessions like Samavasarana etc. (congregation) are found associated with omniscient also; but due to absence of negligence, the monk does not have any sinful intention. And those activities which in the world are stated as “this person tells lies, steals, commits adultery, keeps possessions etc.” are not found in the monks, therefore, they are stated to be the renouncers of untruth, etc.
And among the Mulgunas (fundamental rites of a monk) the renunciation of the objects of five senses is described, but knowing through the senses has not stopped and if the attachment-aversion
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