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thinking person without any difficulty or harm to himself. The second one Arambhi Himsa may be sub-divided as Udyami, Graharambhi, and Virodhi. Udyami Himsa is unavoidably committed in the performance of necessary domestic purposes such as preparation of food, keeping the house, body, clothes clean, construction of buildings, wells, gardens, and keeping cattle. Virodhi is that which is unavoidably committed in defence of person and property, against thieves, robbers etc. One who has adopted the discipline of a Saint practises complete Ahimsa. A true believer in the householder's stage abstains from Samkalpi Himsa, but is unable to abstain from Arambhi, although he tries his best to avoid it as far as possible, and is ever making progress in such endeavour. Further, those who desire avoiding Himsa should, first of all take care to renounce wine, flesh, honey, and the five Udumbar fruits, viz., Gular, Anjeera, Banyan, Peepal and Pakar, all belonging to the fig class. Honey, wine, butter, flesh are all the result of extreme fermentation and the birth-place of lives of the same genus. The five fruits referred to are birth-places of mobile lives. A Jain disciple would renounce
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