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Jainism : The Cosmic Vision If you crave for peace in life, distribute peace generously to all.
If you do not wish to be unhappy in your own life, do not make others unhappy.
If you do not want to suffer in life, do not make others the target of suffering
It you indulge in violence, you will be the target of violence by others against you.
The Prashna Vyakaran Agam says, the slaughtering of an animal or violence against others will result in perpetual unhappiness to you and that, too, not only in this life, but also in the subsequent ones. Unless you undergo suffering on account of the violence that has been perpetrated by you on others, you will not attain or achieve emancipation.
Alden Nowtan in his poem say
Care More for other than for yourself. Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you. Gentleness is the hall-mark of spiritual culture. The hand that gives gathers. It does not cost to be kind. Killing the least, living the best. Nothing good ever comes of violence. Whenever a human being does soneting to relieve the sufferings of an animals,
God makes a little holiday in his heart. What is important is to allow animals to live and to make them happy. What is more important and significant is that if you want to be happy and live in good health, you will have to make all others happy in this world.
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