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means, "Even though one kills, it does not amount to killing". The question is, does expression amount to an encouragement tokill? The answer to this question would be in clear negative if the whole verse is understood properly. The most important words which have great bearing on this question are, “Yasya Naahamkruto Bhavo" meaning, "one who performs his action without egoistic sense" and the subsequent expression "Buddhir yasya na lipyate", meaning "whose intellect is not tainted". These words do qualify the action of slaying. Both of these qualifications mean that the act of slaying is not motivated. If this is so, there is no "Bhava Karma", to use the Jain phraseology. If one slays without any intention to slay or without any sense of doership, it means either that the act of slaying was unavodable or that it was accidental. The basic and fundamental foundation of Jainism is non violence. As Acharang Sutra puts it, "Purisa, Jameva Hanasi Tameva Tumam Si
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