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doctrines (ii) divulging the secrets (iii) perjury and (iv) immoral dealings through speech.
In a broader sense, untruth also commits himsa and is responsible for asarva and bandh. To follow this, one has to give up anger, cowardice or fear and has to speak in accordance with scriptural injunctions.
(c) Achaurya : It is the abstinence from stealing i. e., taking any object without the consent of the person to whom it belongs. It includes abetment of theft, receiving stolen property, black marketing, false weights and measures, adulteration etc.
(d) Brahmacharya : It is the abstinence from sexual pleasures which includes unnatural sexual practices, intense sexual desire, intercourse with other immoral women. These acts disturb the peace of soul by rousing intense passions and are detrimental to its powers. Incidentally, these actions also lower the prestige of a person in this world and make him unfit for worldly gains. To follow this vow, one has to renounce (i) reading or hearing sexual stories (ii) desire to see beautiful women (iii) remembrance of past sexual enjoyment (iv) exciting food or drinks and (v) beautifying one's body.
(e) Aprigraha : Attachment, infatuation or intoxication in the living and non-living objects is the external cause of the passions of greed. This should be checked and eliminated through the vow of aprigraha, where a limit is imposed on each of the belongings and this limit is gradually lowered.
5.10.2 (II) Samiti (or carefulness) : Care in walking to avoid injury, care in speaking i.e., gentle and beneficial talk, care in eating i.e., proper food and with peaceful mind, handling things with care to avoid injury and attending to calls of nature without nuisance or injury to other living beings.
5.10.3 (III) Gupti (or restraint) : restraint over limbs and sense organs of the body, over speech and over mind.
5.10.4 (IV) Dharma (or virtuous acts) : These are forgivensess, humility, honesty or straightforwardness, contentment, truth, restraint of senses, austerity, renunciation, unattachment and celibacy.
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