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( 42 ) 92. It may be (1) denial of the actual existence of a substance with reference to its position, time or nature.
98. (2) affirmation of what does not exist, with reference to position, time and nature
94. (3) where it is wrongly described. 95. (4) Speech condemnable, sinful, or disagreeable.
96. Condemnable speech is such as back-biting, harsh, unbecoming, non-sensical, or otherwise uncanonical.
97. Sinful speech is what leads to piercing, cutting, beating, ploughing, trading, stealing and such acts of Himsa.
98. That which causes uneasiness, fear, pain, hostility, grief, quarrel or anguish of mind is disagreeable speech.
99. Himsa is inevitable in such cases, because of careless indulgence.
100. But a religious dicourse would not be such even if it be distasteful or cause pain to the listener, because of the absence of thoughtless indulgence
101. Those who are unable to refrain from such sinful untruth as is unavoidable in arranging for articles of use, should renounce all other untruths, for ever.
Theft. 102. Theft is the appropriation of what is not given. It causes injury and is Himsa.
103. For property is dear as life. 104. And there is thoughtless indulgence.
105. It is not so, when saints take in Karmic molecules, for there is no passionate indulgence there,
106. Those who are unable to refrain from taking water from well etc., should abstain from appropriating other things.
Sexual Purity. 107-108. in sexual intercourse there is obvious Himsa, due to the killing of mobile germs in the act.
109. Sexual indulgence otherwise has root in desire, and hence is Himsa.
110. If unable to live without a wife, let other females be abjured.
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