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by adverse criticism because you have destroyed all types of adversary feelings. All the same the remembrance of your merits purifies one's mind from all sins."
Democratic values of Jainism are best expressed during the holy days of Paryushana when every jain begs for forgiveness for any adverse feeling generated by him knowingly or unknowingly to all sentient beings however small or big. In these days, he asks for friendliness from all and enmity from
none.
Realisation of Oneness
According to Jainism, this universe is like a big machine whose each part - big, small, light or heavy - is equally important. True knowledge consists of the realization of oneness of all things. The apparent separateness experienced between oneself and the rest is an illusion. Alan Watts succinctly emphasizes this aspect in his book Still the mind asking, "Does the root of a flower influence the flower as something fundamentally different
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