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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7. When some creature kills some other creature and we save the one being attacked, the attacking creature feels miserable, which is violence towards the latter. It is best to avoid this form of violence.
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with false vision and he may indulge in sinful activities after being so saved. Thus, the saviour incurs the sin of abetting its sins.
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All creatures from the one-sensed beings to rational five-sensed beings are equal. Therefore, violence towards any one kind is equally sinful.
When some creature kills some other creature and we try to save the one being attacked, it means that we have attachment towards this one and aversion towards the attacking creature. Attachment and aversion are sinful and results in increase in worldly transmigration.
When we undertake activities like service, kindness, compassion, co-operation, helping, etc, we make a sankalp (resolution). If our resolution remains unfulfilled, we get the feeling of vikalpa (uncertainty). These mundane feelings are sinful and results in increase in worldly transmigration.
The activities like service, kindness, compassion, co-operation, helping, etc., results in karmic bondage, albeit of the auspicious type, which is contrary to spiritual nature and, therefore, irreligious and so fit to be abandoned.
Any single activity cannot result in sin and merit both or it cannot be religious and irreligious both at the same time. Because violence towards innumerable one-sensed creatures like earthbodied, water-bodied, air-bodied, fire-bodied, vegetation, etc., perpetrated while undertaking activities of service, kindness, compassion, co-operation, helping, etc., termed as positive nonviolence, are sinful and irreligious, they cannot be auspicious or meritorious and religious.
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