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causes the destruction of large clusters of subtle, unevolved, spontaneously-born living beings (nigoda jīvas) constantly gathering together. मधुशकलमपि प्रायो मधुकरहिंसात्मकं भवति लोके । भजति मधु मूढधीको यः स भवति हिंसकोऽत्यन्तम् ॥ ६९ ॥ It is likely that even a small droplet of honey in the world will represent killing of honeybees. The senseless person who consumes honey is responsible for grave himsā. स्वयमेव विगलितं यो गृह्णीयाद्वा छलेन मधु गोलात् । तत्रापि भवति हिंसा तदाश्रयप्राणिनां घातात् ॥ ७० ॥ The person who consumes honey which drops down from the honeycomb on its own, or that obtained through some trick, is also responsible for himsā as, in both cases, destruction of subtle, unevolved, spontaneously-born living beings (nigoda jīvas), generated in honey, is caused. मधु मद्यं नवनीतं पिशितं च महाविकृतयस्ताः । वल्भ्यन्ते न वतिना तद्वर्णा जन्तवस्तत्र ॥ ७१ ॥ Honey, wine, butter, and flesh, these four substances provide media for growth of microbes and are, therefore, not suitable for consumption by a votary. These substances inhabit subtle, unevolved, spontaneously-born living beings (nigoda jīvas) of the same genus.
Jain, Vijay K. (2012), "Shri Amritachandra Suri's Puruşārthasiddhyupāya”, p. 44-51.
Thus ends the third part called Right Conduct - Small Vows (aņuvrata)
of the Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra, composed by Acārya Samantabhadra Svāmi.
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