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In the selected Jain account, avoiding injury makes demands on attention and conduct, and householders and ascetics take on different commitments.
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Guided course · Module 3 · Lesson 8
Nonviolence and partial perspectives
Jain teaching connects nonviolence with the living beings around us and with karmic bondage. Its idea of partial standpoints raises a further question: how can a partial view reveal something true without making every opinion equally sound?