RELIGST 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Acharanga Sutra
6 Apr 2017
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He feeds the bones to his dog who is actually his mothers soul reborn. Gives up his wrong religious beliefs (sacrifice brahminical tradition), and accepted jainism. Prostitute has twins, has to give them up and the twins get separated. They are found by two merchants, each merchant takes a child. The merchants marry the two children off with each other not knowing they are brother and sister. They figure out they are brother and sister. Brother ends up with his mother in a romantic relationship. Mother and son have a son sister, using special knowledge that she has developed through jain practice, realizes from far away that this is going on. Emphasis is on renunciation celibacy: sex is always incest because you have been travelling with the same set of souls over time: meat eating is therefore always cannibalism.
