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208 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE JAINAS that area that he shall not injure them. This vow helps the first and also the other anuvratas.
If we will worķ out the knowledge obscuring karmas, we can know of the things going on abroad without actually going there; (compare the avadhi means of knowing). Partial Transgressions
If we transgress the limits through forgetfulness, or by accident, or by subterfuge, it is aticāra; otherwise transgressing the limits is breaking the vow.
SEVENTH VOW 56 (Bhogopabhoga-Parimāņa-Vrata)
Bhoga means that which can be enjoyed or used many times, and upabhoga that which can be enjoyed or used only once, such as cakes (food).
Things which can be used are of these two kinds, therefore the vow is to limit the number of things coming under these two heads.
This helps the first five vows.
This vow includes the limitation of the activities you will engage in to get the things you use So there are two divisions in this vow :
1. In regard to the things that you enjoy. If a layman can, he should use only those things which are inanimate. If he cannot, then he will have to use things thai are animate; but he must number them and limit then; he should give up tleshi foods, also things (vegetabes) in which here are infinite lives in the one body, such as carrois, turnips, potatoes (things that grow underground). But there is more to be said on this point.
2. In regard to the activities in which the layman should engage in order to obtain the things he uses; they should be faultless, sinless (but not sir in the Christian sense, sin here means
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