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Bhāoyam Sūtra 99 You should properly look at the state, status, and the designation of the person who has risen up through right exertion and is well established' in the community of the preceptor. While staying in the community of the preceptor, there grows in him the competence for scriptural knowledge, steadiness in faith and unwavering state of spiritual practice. 5.100 etthavi bālabhāve appānam ņo uvadamsejjā. Do not succumb to the state of the ignorant who does not find any fault in violence. Bhagyam Sutra 100 Here in respect of violence, there is immatured inclinations of some thinkers who think that, as there is no conflagration or hole in the sky (space), similarly there is no conflagration or hole in the soul. The soul is as eternal as the space, and therefore injury to life is quite impossible. One should not leave oneself in such perversity. One should not support violence on the plea of the eternality of the soul. On the contrary, the monk should address the people indulging in violence in the following way: 5.101 tumamsi nāma sacceva jam 'hamtavvam' ti mannasi, tumamsi nāma sacceva jam ‘ajjāveyavvam' ti mannasi, tumamsi nāma sacceva jam 'paritāveyavvam' ti mannasi, tumamsi nāma sacceva jam ‘parighetavvam' ti mannasi. tumamsi nāma sacceva jam 'uddaveyavvam' ti mannasi. You are indeed he whom you intend to hurt. You are indeed he who, you intend to govern. You are indeed he who, you intend to torture. You are indeed he who, you intend to enslave. You are indeed he who, you intend to kill. Bhagyam Sutra 101
'You are indeed the person whom you consider to be worthy of being killed. In this way the non-duality of the self as the killer and the killed is established. “The person whom you are torturing is non-else than yourself. And therefore do you not kill yourself while you think you are killing somebody else?' Through an appreciation of such non-duality of the killer
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