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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bonding and the ultimate infinite spiritual accomplishment of the fully detached Lords Jina would be infinite bonding and they ought to have never liberated. If charity resulted in the destruction of any of the natural attributes of a spirit, then it would have prevented the absolute detachment of the aspirant forever. (pp. 79-80) The fully detached aspirant does not possess even a grain of anything, and then what does he give? How can he be infinitely charitable? We will have to say that when a detached person sees the worldly creatures shackled in the grip of sensory pleasures and tied down to such bondages, his heart melts with mercy and he engages himself in endlessly enlightening them by giving them the right knowledge and destroying their delusion. This giving of the right knowledge is their infinite charity. (p. 83) Charity is characterised by two main elements – 1. Giving up and 2. Beneficence. Giving up is the soul of charity and benefaction is its body. Giving up denotes forsaking the ownership of an object and giving up ownership denotes giving up of the pleasures that could be derived from the objects so given up. This lack of selfishness results in generosity or magnanimity. Beneficence is the practical form of generosity or altruism. This is the second basic element of charity. (p. 78) More the expanse of one's affection more will be the leanness of attachment. As a rubber balloon is blown up its walls become thinner and thinner and when it is blown beyond its material capacity, it explodes. Similarly, when the attachment wears down and detachment increases, the field of one's affection keeps expanding. The circle of one's affection expands from family to neighbourhood, from neighbourhood to the society, from society to the whole of humanity and from the whole of humanity to whole of the living set including the animals, birds, fishes, insects. etc. It turns itself into all beneficial feeling. Eventually this noble feeling destroys the attachment and delusion and results into completely detached state. (p. 95)
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