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vow to drink non-living water only.
Outings: When one is outdoors, he will not use the normally available, living raw water. Thus, one would be saved of the habit of drinking small-small quantity of raw water during every outing or visit. One would thus be drinking water after coming back to his house due to his vow and limitation. We reconsider the point (i) again with an example. "I am responsible for the Himsã of birth and death in the pitcher", says one Shravaka.
iv).
Let us check it from another angle.
Example: There is a stone lying outside my house, but I do not notice it. Since I do not have any attachment to it, I do not incur any Karmic-bond with it. If at any time, I pick it up & keep the stone in my house, thinking that it would be useful for me for some particular job in future; I would create a Bhava ("subjective attachment") Bandha with it. When I throw it out again, thinking it to be useless for me, my bondage is broken with it.
Similarly, when I keep a pitcher full of raw water for my use, I create a subjective Karmic bondage with that water.
In the same way, if I purchase and bring 1 kg of potato in my house, I do create a subjective Karmic bondage with it.
Now the question arises,
Whether I become a cause of running of life cycles of "birth/death" in that pitcher or potato, from the time I bring them in the house till I use it? Shall I be held responsible for the birth-deaths cycles taking placing in it?
If yes, will I be attracting Karma accordingly?
"If I consider the loss-gain of the alien matter, like potato or water as my own loss-gain, it would inculcate attachment-detachment bhava (feelings) in me. But if I do not consider it as my own loss or gain, there will be no subjective Karmic bondage",
This can be further elaborated in following manner:
v)
If I think in terms of "Bheda-Vigyana" i.e., my (soul) entity is different from my material body. I do not involve my
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