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4.25
4.26
puvvam nikaya samayam patteyam pucchissāmo pāvāduyā! kim bhe sayam dukkham udāhu asāyam?
The heretical teachers sticking to their own respective doctrines we should address, 'O teachers! is paid pleasant or unpleasant to you?'
samiyā padivanne yāvi evam būya - savvesim pāṇāṇam savvesim bhūyāṇam savvesim jīvāṇam savvesim sattāṇam asāyam apariņivvāṇam mahabbhayam dukkham. - tti bemi.
To those who are rightly disposed towards the truth, one should say 'to all animates, living beings, souls and living entities pain is unpleasant, disagreeable and most dreadful'.
Bhāsyam Sūtra 25, 26
hambho
If the unwise persons do not properly understand the principle of non-violence even though adequately explained, one should feel indifferent. One should engage in debate with the council of knowledgeable people in the following order. First of all the opponents should be asked to make the solemn vow to speak the truth or they should be asked to acknowledge their own doctrines. And thereafter the question should be raised: 'O heretics! is pain pleasant1o to you or not?" Being thus asked, if they reply that pain was pleasant to them then such doctrine should be repudiated by the evidence of perceptual experience, verdict of the scripture and popular feeling against it. But if they confess that pain was not pleasant to them then the monk should address such people who have been brought to the right way of thinking in the above manner, as follows: 'the pain is not only not liked by you, but it is not liked by all animates, living beings, souls and living entities; the pain is unpleasant, disagreeable and most dreadful.'
'Disagreeable' means repugnant to peace.
The doctrine thus follows that no living being should be injured.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा जुलाई - दिसम्बर, 2006
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