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विक्रम
absence of greed, and greed with the absence of property. Rich and delicious food should not particularly be preferred, for it generally makes men overstrong, and desires rush upon the strong. To those who have overcome the attachment of women all other attachments will offer no difficulties. From the desire for pleasurear ises the misery of the whole world. The dispassionte will put an end to whatever misery of the mind and body there is. He who is passionately fond of colours will come to untimely ruin. He who is in different to true colours is free from sorrows. All such passions as anger, pride, deceit, disgust, aversion to self-control, delight in sexual things. mirth, fear, sorrow, carnal desire for women, arise in him who is attached to pleasures.
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Sinful and wicked deeds :
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There are three ways of committing sins: by one's own action, by commission, and by approval of the deed. Those, who kill others for the sake of their own pleasures are wicked. People, who destroy seeds for their own pleasure, are wicked. All creatures who have committed sins will suffer Wrong beliefs and bad conduct are worthless. Sinners, subject to love and hatred and wrong doing, acquire Karma arising from passions and commit many sins. The careless commit sins in their thought. and speech. A cruel man does cruel things and is thereby involved in other cruelties. Sinful undertakings will in the end entail suffering. Sentient beings engage themselves in the following kinds of activities: Sinning for one's own interest, sinning without a personal interest, sinning by staying, through accident, by error or sight, by lying, by taking what is not freely given, by mere conceit, through pride, through greed, through deceit, through bad treatment of one's friends. and actions concerning a religious life.
Hells:
In hells, sinners suffer on accouut of their sinful deeds done by them while on earth. There is suffering from heat and cold. The sinners are cut, pierced, and hacked to pieces with swords and daggers, with darts and javelins. Their noses, ears, and lips are cut off with razors and their tongues are pulled out with sharp pikes. They are thrown into large caldrons and boiled there. They are compelled to drink molten lead and copper when they are thirsty. They are tortured day and night, and they cry at the top of their voices. These hells are filled with perpetual darkness. In them, they do not sleep, nor do they get any comfort. A gloomy view of the world :
Mahavira presents a gloomy picture of the world. This is a place of quarrel and strife, death and carnage, and of all mad pursuits of life, the ultimate end of which is disappointment. For the sake of food and drink, lodging and comfort. woman and wealth, man is involved in various difficulties that lead the soul from sin. Because of their attachment to seductive pleasures of the senses like sounds and colours, tastes and smells, and touches and perceptions, livings beings suffer and find no escape from pain. The path to these pleasures is the path to birth, disease, decay, and death. Looking at the miserable condition of the world, man craves for liberation, deliverance and perfection.
Real Brahmana :
In the opinion of Mahavira, real Brahmana is not so called by
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