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agreeable and disagreeable objects of the senses characterized by touoh etc. constitutes the five observances of the vow of non-attachment.
The observances for strengthening the vows have been described. Are there other contemplations also with regard to injury etc., which also lead to steadiness in practising the vows? Yes. It is also with regard to the opposites.
हिंसादिविहामुत्रापायावधदर्शनं
Himsādisvihāmutrāpāyāvadyadarśanam (9) 9. The consequences of violence etc. are calamity and reproach in this world and in the next.
Calamity is the tendency to destroy activities which lead to prosperity and bliss. One must contemplate that violence etc. lead to calamity and shame in this life and in the life to come. A few instances are given. He who commits violence is always agitated and afflicted and is always actuated by animosity. He is also subjected to pain, imprisonment and suffering in this life. And after death he takes an inauspicious birth. He becomes also despicable. Hence it is good to give up causing injury etc.
In the same manner, the person who speaks falsehood becomes untrustworthy. And he is meted out punishment such as the cutting off of the tongue. He is also subjected to various sufferings by the vindictive persons who have been afflicted by his falsehoods. After death he is plunged into miserable life in his next birth. He is despised too by others. Hence it is good to renounce falsehood.
Similarly the thief, who is intent on depriving others of their possessions, causes affliction (anxiety) to all. In this world itself he is beaten, given blows, put in bonds, and subjected to mutilation of hand, leg, ear, tongue, upper lip and so on. His property is confiscated. And after death he takes an inauspicious birth and becomes despicable. Therefore it is good to desist from stealing.
Similarly an unchaste person, with his mind agitated by lustful passion and amorous excitement, loses his control over
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