Five Moral Codes
Five Moral Codes
When a person is initiated into Swaminarayan fold, he has to pledge to observe five basic vows – (i) non-taking of intoxicants (ii) non-taking of meat (iii) non-stealing (iv) avoidance from adultery (v) non-defilement. Though these vows are as few in number as five, but when observed, each of them is capable to purify a person¬– externally as well as internally. If understood in their wider and deeper sense, each one of them has tremendous power to purify one''s chitta such that it becomes capab...
Contents
- Preface
- Five Moral Codes and their Importance
- First Moral Code - Renouncement of Intoxicant
- Second Moral Code - Not to Eat Flesh - Shunning of Violence
- Third Moral Code - Never Commit a Theft (Stealing)
- Fourth Moral Code - Shunning Sensuality
- Fifth Moral Code - Not to get Defiled, Nor to Defile Others
- Conclusion