The five vows are the structural core, and Jainism's honesty about the gap between the monastic and lay versions is what distinguishes it. Monastics take the mahavratas — ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya and aparigraha — without qualification, without exception and for life. Householders take the anuvratas, the same five explicitly limited: non-violence extended to all mobile beings but not achievable toward one-sensed ones; truth in matters that count; non-stealing in trade; fidelity rather than celibacy; and non-possession expressed as a self-imposed ceiling on wealth. To these are added three gunavratas and four shikshavratas, twelve lay vows in all, several of which involve declaring limits in advance — the direction and distance you will travel, the things you will consume, the trades you will engage in — so that all the harm outside the declared boundary is renounced in advance. This is a genuinely clever piece of moral engineering: it makes the finite householder responsible for a bounded rather than an unbounded field, and it makes the limits explicit and public rather than aspirational.