Āvaśyaka Sūtra

The Āvaśyaka Sūtra is one of the Jain Agama scriptures.

Quotes

Dundas, Paul (2002). The Jains (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26605-X. 

• I perform, sir, the rite of equanimity.
  I abandon all bad activity for the course of my life, threefold by threefold, in mind, body and speech.
  I will not perform nor cause anybody to perform nor approve anybody performing any bad action.
  I repent of it, sir, I censure, reject and abandon myself.
  • Chapter 2

• I ask pardon from all living creatures.
  May all creatures pardon me.
  May I have friendship for all creatures and enmity towards none.
  • Chapter 32

• I want to make pratikramaṇa [repentance] for injury on the path of my movement,
  in coming and in going,
  in treading on living things,
  in treading on seeds,
  in treading on green plants,
  in treading on dew,
  on beetles,
  on mould,
  on moist earth,
  and on cobwebs;
  whatever living organisms with one or two or three or four or five senses have been injured by me or knocked over or crushed or squashed or touched or mangled or hurt or affrighted or removed from one place to another or deprived of life –
  may all that evil have been done in vain.
  • Source: Williams, Robert (1963). Jaina Yoga: A Survey of the Medieval Śrāvakācāras. Oxford University Press. p. 204.