Thus we enjoin on you, thus do we say,
Thus we believe, thus we proclaim to all: No living things should be slain any where, Nor ordered forcibly this way or that. Nor put in bonds, nor tortured any way Or treated violently otherwise: Because you are the same which ye would slay Or order here or there against his will. Or put in prison, or subject to pain, Or treat with violence: ye are the same; The Self-same Life doth circulate in all. jain agams - acharanga sutra
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