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Bhagyam Sutra 24 The ascetic who rightly comprehends the nature and result of injury to earth-bodied organism, has prepared himself for the practice of selfrestraint. The word adânīya in the sūtra, rendered as self-restraint, has several other connotations. 1.25 soccà khalu bhagavao anagarānam vă amite ihamegesim nātam
bhavali-csa khalu gamthe, çsa khalu mohe, esa khalu mare, esa
khalu narae. Hearing from the Jina or other ascetics, some people come to know: such violence is indeed a knot, is delusion, is death, is hell. Bhasvam Sutra 25 The person who is ignorant of the consequences of violence cannot practice non-violence. Here the sūtra indicated the way to enlightenment. On learning the truth directly from the Jina, the enlightened one, or learning it from other ascetics, the wisdom arises: violence binds the minds of the living beings and so it is called knot; it stupefies their minds and so it is called delusion; it takes away their life and therefore it is called death; it causes immense pain to them and therefore it is called hell. 1.26 iccattham gadhie loe. Nevertheless, the people entrapped in pursuit of pleasure (indulge in violence to carth-bodied beings). 1.27 jaminam virūvarūvehim satthehim pudhavi-kamma
samārambhenam pudhavi-sattham samārambhemāne anne
venegarūve pane vihimsai. They indulge in violent actions to carth-bodied beings with various weapons which involve destruction of various other classes of beings. Bhāșyam Sūtras 26-27 If violence mcans knot, delusion, death and hell, who will engage in violence (and for whal purpose)? The answer is provided by the sūtra, pointing out that the people entrapped in worldly pleasures and comforts are inclined to injury to carth-bodied beings and to the beings infesting the earth. See Sutra 19. 1.28 se bemi — appege amdhamabbhe, appege amdhamacche. Thus I say; some body picrces or cuts the blind (earth-bodied beings that have the feeling of intense pain like that of the human beings born blind, deaf, dumb, lame and deficient in other limbs).
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