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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS
Perfect Renunciation (Autsargiki Nivritti). Imperfect renunciation (Apavadiki Nivritti) is of various kinds.
Commentary. One, who has perfectly renounced Himsa, will not utter a word which is likely to give pain to another; will not do any act which may cause injury to another, will not harbour any thoughts pre. judicial to another, will not make anybody else utter words likely to cause pain to another, nor commit acts likely to injure another, nor entertain feelings of ill-will towards another; and will not approbate or encourage others who by words, deeds, or thought cause pain to another.
This nine-fold renunciation is Perfect Renunciation. If the renunciation is limited in respect of mobile, or immobile ,or of any one or more of the nine kinds of commission, it would be Imperfect.
स्तोकैकेन्द्रियघातागृहीणाम् सम्पन्नयोग्यविषयाणाम् । शेषस्थावरमारणविरमणमपि भवति करणीयम् ॥७७॥
77. Householders possessed of appropriate articles of enjoyment have to injure a limited number of one-sensed beings. They should desist fron causing destruction of other immobile beings.
Commentary. Jainism is a practical religion, and consistent with temporal activity and prosperity. It does not inculcate laziness, or inertness. It is not the fatalism of the idle do-nothing-fellow. Jainism teaches a self imposed discipline, with due regard to one's own capacities and surroundings. What it does lay stress upon is the indisputable principle that one should never act nagligently, unnecessarily, with: out any sense of responsibility. It requires one not to incur the easily avoidable sin of indulging in unnecessary or thoughtless acts, harmful to self and to others. With this one principle in view, a householder may engage in all proper pursuits of a business life.
अमृतत्वहेतुभूतं परममहिंसारसायनं लब्ध्वा । अवलोक्य बालिशानामसमञ्जसमाकुलैर्न भवितव्यम् ॥ ७८॥
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