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Bhāsyam Sūtra 9 The Aphorism of non-violence that is explained here ahs been realized, heard of, thought of and discriminated about." Realization' means directly intuited by pure intuition. 'Heard of means learnt from the omniscient. “Thought of means well pondered over. “Discriminated' means subjected to shifting knowledge." 4.10 samemāņā palemāņā, puņo-puņo jāti pakappemti.
People involved and engaged in violence lead themselves to birth
again and again. Bhāśyam Sūtra 10
Like the birds dwelling on the trees in the night and dispersing in different directions in the morning, everyday people migrating from different species of life live together for sometime and at the end migrate to different forms of life. In other words, they are involved in the cycle of birth and death in different species of life such as one-sensed beings and the like.13
aho ya rão ya jayamāņe, vīre sayā āgayapaņņāņe. pamatte bahiya pāsa, appamatte sayā parakkamejjāsi. - tti bemi. The heroic ascetic who is forever full of wisdom exerts day and night in the spiritual discipline and visualizes the non-vigilant people standing outside the discipline. Consequently he should
ever exert himself being vigilant (self-aware).- Thus do I say. Bhāsyam Sūtra 11
Similarly, an aspirant, finding the faults of non-vigilance, becomes enlightened and like a valiant person strives day and night without rest. Finding people recklessly indulging in sensual objects and passions and divorced from the discipline of non-violence, one should forever exert himself without any sort of non-vigilance.!4 Where there is non-vigilance, there must be violence and where there is absence of non-vigilance, there is non-violence without fail. This is the traditionally accepted sequence.
References : 1. Kumārilabhațțena praśnah upasthāpitaḥ - yadi asti sarvajñaḥ tahim
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