Ahimsa the Ultimate Winner

SR No.: 001630
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N P Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 298
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Ahimsa
File Size: 18 MB

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Each day of Paryushan Parva is dedicated to understanding the significance of and endeavouring to assimilate in ones life virtue and practice of forgiveness, humility, honesty, purity, truthfulness, self-restraint, asceticism, study, detachment and celibacy. This devotional activity reaches a climax with the observance of the Day of Universal Forgiveness. It completes the observance of Ahimsa in its wholesome perspective and fulsome clarity.
It would be a matter of immense delight if the world community could take over the celebration of the Day of Universal Forgiveness for the entire world community under the auspices of the United Nations. This would be a significant step forward towards strengthening the fiber of world peace if we could have a global day of forgiveness.
Let us not wonder, “Who moved my cheese” or “who will move it". Let the humanity in this age of extraordinary technological advances and explosion of information, not feel lost or confused. Let us prepare ourselves for a change that would bring us inner contentment and bliss.
Cronin A.J. has wisely observed:
“ Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unnampered, but a maze of passages through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always if we have faith, God will open a door for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for
US.”
Forgiveness is the key to such a door because “To Forgive is Divine”.
Ahimsa: The Ultimate Winner
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