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discrimination cannot redeem them from those predispositions etc. Only the preacher who is free from obsessive notions, and is possessed of nonabsolutistic attitude, reconciling spirit and feeling of equality can redeem them. Such person is held in high respect everywhere on account of his personal goodness. 2.1 79 uddham aham tiriyam disāu, se savvato savvaparinnacări. Such monk is guided by his all-pervasive power of comprehensions in all direction: above, below, and horizontal. Bhaoyam Sutra 179 Such person, being free from possessiveness, behaves with full power of comprehension, exerting his whole personality in all directions - above, below and horizontal -at all times. He experiences absolute distinction between the soul and body and performs the necessary duties not being swayed by attachment and hatred. This is, indeed, the result of his conduct with all embracing power of comprehension. 2.180 ņa lippai chanapaeņa vīre. He is not tainted by the acts of violence. Bhagyam Sutra 18 0 Such hero does not get stained by the acts of violence. Who, and in what manner, can remain untainted in this world full of sentient beings and nonsentient objects of temptation? Every moment there arise occasions for temptation of violence and possessiveness. But inspite of all this a person of good conduct with all embracing power of comprehension perceives the absolute distinction between soul and body and does not lend himself to possessiveness. Violence is born of possessiveness. The person free from possessiveness lives in vigilance and self-awareness, and so he does not get tainted by violence even when engaged in worldly activities. The present Sutra discloses the heart of the principle of nonviolence and defines the distinction between physical and spiritual violence. The docntrine of the untained state of the soul is very ancient. This is found in the Uttarad-yayana, 25/39 which says: “Tainting takes place in the case of the person who is addicted to sensual objects but it does not affect him who is free from such addiction.' In the Bhagavad Gita also it is propounded that tainting does not occur in a person endowed with equanimity:
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