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AHIMSA - HOW TO PRACTICE
* Be vegetarian * Be compassionate * Be tolerant * Co-operate rather than compete * Learn to forgive and forget * Don't engage in gossip or speak bad about anybody * Think well rather than bad about others + Do not tease or intentionally hurt someone's feeling * Show carefulness and awareness in any actions * Protect the environment * Increase knowledge about nature to respect & protect it * Minimize your desires and wants - don't be greedy * Do not waste food - only take as much as you can eat * Use energy wisely * Avoid anger and jealousy towards other
Aspects of Violence (Himsa) - Sangrahanisutra 1663-64 According to the philosophy of the Jain religion, animals that are violent to one another are reborn in hell as well as men who practice cruelty. Each hell has a matching image.
(1) Unreasoning tigers (2) Domesticated cheetah carrying a rodent
(3) Bird of prey with a smaller bird in its beak (4) Gaja-Simha (mythical elephant-lion) with its elephant prey
(5) Mongoose kills a snake (6) Seated couple and implies the violence of lovemaking. (7) A man shoots rabbits, a scene described as "human beings doing bloody deeds."
(8) A big fish eats a little one, a scene described as "fish doing bloody deeds"
