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TWO-FOLD PURPOSE OF DHARMA OR RELIGION
on you, thus we say, thus we believe, thus we proclaim to all. No living thing should be slain anywhere, nor ordered forcibly this way or that, nor put in bonds nor tortured in any way, or treated violently otherwise, because you are that same which he would slay or order here and there against his will, or put in prison or subject to pain or treat with violence, you are that same, the self same life doth circulate in all".
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Sober thinking reveals that we will have to reap the consequences of our fair or foul actions or inclinations. There is no power which will reverse the universal law of cause and effect. The superiority of man over beasts rests mainly upon the observance of the law of non-violence. We should bear in mind that the life of violence cannot confer real joy. It is powerless and leads to darkness but the life of nonviolence or Ahimsa blesses the soul with delight, light and power.
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