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The jivas (souls) are so called because they live and subsist according to their life-span karma. The sattvas (living entities) are so called because they are possessed of good and bad deeds.? There are five directive members in the aforesaid ahimsa aphorism:
(1) they should not be injured by sticks and whips, (2) they should not be commanded by coercive order, (3) they should not be subjugated as servant or slave (male and
female) with the sense of mineness, (4) they should not be tortured by inflicting physical and mental
pain, (5) they should not be killed by depriving them of life.
esa dhamme suddhe niie sāsae samicca loyam kheyannehim paveie. This is the pure, perennial and eternal doctrine which was propounded by the self-realized Arhats who comprehended the
world of living beings. Bhāsyam Sutra 2 This five-membered discipline of non-violence has four characteristics : (1) it is pure on account of its being free from attachment and
aversion, (2) it is perennial because there is no scope of any change in it, (3) it is eternally valid because it does not lose its validity in any
of the three periods of the time, (4) it is propounded by the self-realized Jinas who
comprehended the world of living beings. The religion propounded by the people, ignorant of the self, is impure, because it is pollutted by attachment and aversion. Such religion is possessed of plurality of views with vitiated self-nature, on account of being devised by wayward intelligence. From this follows the universal rule that there is essential identity in the religion which is revealed by the self-realized persons. Contrarily, there is no such identity in the religion that is preached by persons who have not realized the self.
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