Basic Jain Culture Non Possession

SR No.: 006745
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Padamchand Shastri, N L Jain
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 50
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

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there has been a custom of qualifying all ford-builders as detached, (i.e. vitaraga)- the detached Rishabha, the detached Mahavira etc. There has been no intricacy in qualifying them as non-violent (despite their being non-violent, i.e. non-violent Rishabha or non-violent Mahavira etc.) as all these attributes are based on renunciation of possession.
When we glance at the nature of violence etc., we find they are all due to possession. According to Umasvami, the violence is defined as harming the vitalities due to carelessness (TS. 7.13). The word carelessness should be taken to mean possession. In Purusharthasiddhi-upaya (Means of Accomplishing Exertions) also, there is prominence of carelessness as indicated in verses 43-48' which mean.
"Truly, the violence is the destruction or harming of physical and psychical vitalities through mind, body and speech transformed volitionally due to passions (carelessness). The Saints never incur the sin of violence even in harming the vitalities in the absence of volitions of attachment etc. In contrast, there is always violence due to attachmental volitions and activities or carelessness even when there is harming or no harming of vitalities. The harming of vitalities is always there when there is carelessness. The soul harms first himself due to passion even before harming others".
Just as the carelessness is the cause in violence, it is also a cause in all other sins, as indicated in the Rajvastika commentary on aphorism of 'Tattvarth Sutra' (Formulae on Reals) 7.13.
All sins or defects originate from possessions. There are the processes of keeping up etc. in the resolve oftmyness' and there is unavoidably violence. The human beings speak false, steal and involve in sins for safeguarding 'myness'. Thus, there is no question of violence etc. if there are no internal possessions like 'myness' and external possessions like grains and wealth as the maxim states : "There is no effect without cause", 'Dhavala', (4.5, 6.92-93).