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of non-violence are avoided, it is not possible to follow the discipline. The first obstruction is sensibles. 'Sensible' means sense-object such as sound, colour, smell, taste and touch. The person attached to the sensibles is unable to keep the vow of non-violence. This is embodied in the statement that a follower of non-violence should imbibe disgust for the sensibles; he should not relish them. 4.7 ņo logassesanam care.
One should not hanker after worldly things. Bhāsyam Sutra 7 The second obstruction to the practice of non-violence is the hankering after worldly things. 'World' stands for the sensual objects. One should not run after such objects. Alternatively, the entire world hankers after the sensual objects; should not then I too engage in the search of them? Such thought is but hankering after the world. A follower of non-violence should not indulge in such hankering. Such hankering leads to indulgence in violence. This is shown in the following passage of the Uttaradhyayana, 5.7-8.9
“I shall live as the people live, such is the thought of the inadept. He incurs affliction on account of his lust for sensual enjoyment. As a result, he commits injury to mobile and immobile beings and tortures the creatures with or without any purpose. 4.8 jassa nathie imā ņāi, aņņā tassa kao siyā?
How could one who has no knowledge of the doctrine of ahimsā
know about other doctrines? Bhāsyam Sūtra 8 One should cultivate disgust or the sensual objects; nor should one indulge in the hankering for worldly things. This is the basic truth of non-violence and spiritualism. A person who has not the knowledge of this doctrine cannot have the knowledge of any other doctrine. The person who cannot subdue the senses, cannot enter the realm of non-violence. 4.9 dittham suyam mayam viņņāyam, jameyam parikahijjai.
Whatever has been said about the doctrine of non-violence has been realized, heard of, thought of and discriminated about.
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