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selfish motives. Let the Doctrine of Love, as implied in the message of Ahimsa Paramo Dbarmah-non-violence is the highest Religion as taught by the Great Tirthankaras-Now replace the mad rush for power, and personal self-aggrandisement, and selfglorification. Your reward will be sweet yet.
Let me add that only he will be found willing, and able to practise abimsă and universal love, who has understood the nature of his soul, and of the enmity of che flesh and of the friends, and allies of the enemy. Only be will have his heart saturated with the ennobling, friend-making, peace-engendering emotion, who knows that by loving others, he helps his own soul to grow strong, while in hating any one even a lowly worm, he only helps the enemy that is the fash, and weakens, and eae. rvates his real sell I
In practical life, ahimsa will be found to be the one suro means of taming savage natures, It will civilize the un-civilized barbarian, and make him a good and desirable citizen. The hou. nebolder who is involved in the world, and still very far away from sainthood, practises it with a little qualification. He cannot emulate the saint in this regard. For, while the saint will hurt no one, on any account, the good layman will yield to the noed for defending himself in the practice of abimsā. But he will never he the aggressor himself; and wheu compelled to defend himself he will use only just sufficient force to over-power the enemy. The King who knows how to temper justice with mercy is therefore protected by ahimsă. The layman also longs to enter sainthood one day, to be able to practise ahimsă properly.
The saint who has renounced the world, and who wishes to make the conquest of his lower nature as speedily as he can, tries to observe the vow of ahimsā with absolute rigidity, in all respecto so far as it is physically possible to do so. The highest saints who bave attained the Ideal of Life namely-the Supreme Status,-are able to practise Universal Love, without any kind of qualification. Their nature is changed in the end. They attain
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| SR No. | 008002 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 1 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker |
| Publisher | Parimal Publication |
| Publication Year | 1989 |
| Total Pages | 623 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion |
| File Size | 14 MB |