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Start unfavourable to oneself should not be performed to have one's selfish end. But if the followers of grafa system preachs that
यावज्जीवेत् सुखं जोवेत् ऋणं कृत्वा धृतं पिबेत् ।
भस्मीभूतस्य बेहस्य पुनरागमनं कुतः ॥ then it is really the misinterpretation of their own philosophy.
As we have seen the immoral and irresponsible social behaviour was never acceptable to real cārvāka. The moral strength was rather the only strength which inspired him to oppose the sacrifice of innocent creatures by Brahmins. Thus the most heterodox Indian philosophical systems of arala had relation with religion. Here the term religion should be understood in its broad sense. and not in its narrow sense of any sect सम्प्रदाय or पन्थ.
Let us now turn to Jainism. We know that followers of this religion or seci are mainiy divided into two sects viz. Svetāmbara and Digambara. Both sects neither accept the existence of God nor they accept the authorities of aas. The followers of this religion strict:y believe in non-violence. Like cārvakn their non-acceptance of the authorities of das is due to their opposition of the animal sacrifice which is based on the authority of aes. The main principle of their philosophy, is 377FlTarg. To understand the propoundation of this principle we should once again go back and peep into the history of this philosophy.
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According to Jaina Agamas about 303 aras i.e. philosophical theories existed in the time of lord Mahāvīra.
