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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
stated in so many words Hence these are sought to be conveyed by part conduct and whole conduct
Part conduct does not consist of subject existence of 'lesser vows' and external activities, but it is one in which a part of pure detachment shines in proportion to the reduction of anantănubandhi and apratyākhyānā varana passions. That indeed is conduct. The accompanying pure devotion and external activity are called conduct as a matter of usage
Because of the absence of conscience, an unwise soul does not understand the main point and fixes his vision on external activity Highlighting this, Pandit Todarmal writes:
"Their vision is fixed on external activity but they do not bother whether the outcome is improvement or deterioration If they have their eyes on the outcome, then, as the outcome happens to them, they have their eyes turned to it But in considering the chain of those outcomes, they fail to consider the intention underlying their desire, and the result that occures to them is that of the intention underlying the desire "180
Of the outcome, he has drawn the picture as follows:
"Being indifferent, he accepts the 'lesser vows' and the 'greater vows', as described in the texts, and gives up violence in part or in full, and establishes pious deeds like non-violence in their place. And as formerly he considered himself the doer of sinful activities based on categories, so now he considers himself the doer of pious activities based on categories. Thus there is the parity of ego in both types of category based activities, e.g, I kill living beings, or I have accumulation then, and now I protect, I am nude without possession This ego in either type of category based activity is itself the wrong outlook. Samayasāra Kalasa states:
ye tu kartaramātmānam pasyanti tamasa tatah sāmānyajanavatteṣām na mok so'pi mumuksutām 199
180 Mokşamarga Prakasaka, 237-38
