Positive Non Violence

SR No.: 006917
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kanhaiyalal Lodha, Dalpatsingh Baya
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 344
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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Tasanti pānā paviso disāsu yal Tattha tattha pāsa āturā paritāventi I - Ācārāṇga, 1.1.6.49
I say that -
The moving creatures are these - Ones that are born from an egg, born with a skin-cover, born from womb, born from fermentation of liquids, born from sweat, born without conception, vegetation born from sprouts and creatures born through sudden manifestation. This is the world. This worldly transmigration is for the dull and the ignorant.
I say this after due thought and contemplation that everyone wants peace. Lack of peace and tranquility and lack of pleasure are fearsome and miserable for all creatures and for all living beings.
All these creatures feel miserable from all directions and in between and from all sides. Just see how the pleasure loving humans torment these creatures everywhere.
Comments - One can refrain from causing pain and misery to others only by feeling for their pain and misery. By such feelings alone can arise the feelings of mercy, kindness and sympathy and one can set about to mitigate their miseries. Thus, there is a need to feel for others.
Na ya pāņavaham aṇujāņe, muccejja kayāi savvadukkhāņam |
Eyāriehim akkhāyam, jehim imo sāhudhammo pannatto II
- Uttarādhyayana, 8.8 That is, - Anyone that approves of violence or of terminating, hurting or compromising the vitalities of living beings can never liberate from all his miseries. This kind of Śramaņa dharma has been propounded by the noble sages.
SENSITIVITY OF VEGETATION Se bemi - Imam pi jātidhammayam, eyam pi jātidhammayam Imam pi vuddhidhammayam, eyam pi vuddhidhammayam Imam pi cittamantayam, eyam pi cittamantayam
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