Some Jain Concepts and Conduct

Author(s): Sushma Singhvi
Publisher: B J Institute

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Śrāvakācāra : Code of Conduct of a Householder]
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anxious about another. He speaks different from what he has spoken. A deceitful man does not confess his deceit. He is generally not trusted. He blames and revives the person whom he has deceived.
The twelfth kind of committing sin is related to greed. This is specially concerned with the heretical modes who live in woods, in huts, about villages or practice some secret rites, or not well controlled, not do they well abstain from slaying all sorts of living beings and employ speech that is true and untrue at the same time. They consider themselves superior to others and wish to be treated with reverence and honour, compared to others whom they consider inferior. This category of sin is committed by a special class of people held above the common people who are householders.
The above mentioned twelve kinds of sins should be well-understood by a pious śramana or brāhmaṇa as Sāmparāyika which leads to worldly life contrary to this is another category of karman which is called iriyăvahiya. It is the subject matter of the thirteenth kind of karman which is explained in some detail with reference to samiti and guptis and perfectly careful conduct of the monastic community. Such activity is called iriyavahiya because it is a pure activity which does not effect the spirituality of the soul. It causes bondage in the first moment, it is realized in the second and falls in the third moment. This is an account of the activity of a soul that has achieved spiritual perfection, though still living in a world and leading a mundane life.
Satya aņuvrata - the second aņuvrata namely the Satyavrata is defined as abstinence from untruth spoken out of lust or hatred and also from truth if it leads to the destruction of living beings.?? Even the truthful utterance that is harsh and likely to lead to holocaust or harm the feelings of respectful