Sakaratmak Ahimsa

SR No.: 002119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kanhaiyalal Lodha
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 1996
Total Pages: 404
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Yoga
File Size: 17 MB

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Positive Contents of Jinism
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tya, one becomes Tirthankar in future lives--the highest reward.
वेयावच्चेणं तित्थयरणामगोयं कम्म णिबंधइ ।
So it can safely be concluded that monks as well as householders both can render service and though the service of fellow religious householders by the former is a controversial topic yet by the latter is quite permissible. Therefore, a jain should never shirk from this vaiyavratyaa pious action. Thus the final result is that for every one dose of inactivity (Samyam) two doses of activity (Ahimsa and Tap) have been prescribed by Jain religion.
And, in this way, seen from whatever angle, whether theological doctrinal, metaphysical, philosophical or religious, Jinism is much more positive than negative and we find in evidence a big pyramid of Jain ethics based upon Kriyavad. Besides, a deep penetration in Jain agamas will reveal that Bhagwan Mahaveer was a hard task-master and meant business. He did not spare even youngesters and teenagers, women, scheduled castes, householders etc. from religious exercise under the age old excuses of noneligibility and disabilities. Consequently his is the most practical approach; for him CETT79 (view point of practice) is as much relevant as fasayat (view point of theory). Ends do not justify the means is an incomplete statement; according to him full equation is neither means justify the ends nor ends justify the means, because all ends in turn become means of further ends. Therefore, each problem should be solved on its own merits with the barometer of ultimate net reduction in bondage, at fa sfa 994 is the amended version of Jain reality. Clearly this liberal, flexible and tolerant attitude would be redundant had the Jain philosophy etc not believed in gafə (action). Though I am not a serioous student of other religious philosophies yet it can be said that if compared to others, Jinism will score in positive