Mahavira Smruti Granth Part 01

SR No.: 010530
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamtaprasad Jain, Others
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Society Agra
Total Pages: 363
Language: Hindi
Classification: Smruti_Granth
File Size: 9 MB

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भ० महावीर स्मृति ग्रंथ |
bistory cherished, promoted and propagated the same message but explained and interpreted it according to their own ways. In modern times, Dr Sun Yat-Sen, the father of the Republic of China, had scientifically employed the lofty ideals of Jen in his San Min Chu Yi, the Three People's Principles, for his national movement for the emancipation of China and the renaissance of Chinese culture
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Mencius was the first sage who attempted to apply this perfect doctrine to practical politics. When he first met king Hur of the Liang state, the king asked Venerable sır, since you have not counted it far to come here, a distance of a thousand miles, may I presume that you are likewise provided with counsels to profit my kingdom?" He replied: "Why must Your Majesty use that word 'profit?' What I am 'likewise' provided with, are counsels to Jen and Y1 or benevolence and righteousness, and these are my only topics. If Your Majesty say, "What is to be done to profit my Ling. dom?' the great officers will say 'What is to be done to profit our families?' and the interior officers will say, 'What is to be done to profit our persons?' Superiors and inferiors will try to snatch this profit, the one from the other, and the kingdom will be endangered There never has been a man trained to Jen or benevolence who neglected his parents. There never has been a man tramed to Yi or righteousness who made his sovereign an after consideration. Let Your Majesty also say, Jen and Y1 or benevolence and righteousness and these shall be the only themes' Why must you use that word 'Profit?'" (The works of Mencius).
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With this noble mission, Mencius went from state to state and preached to and discussed with the kings one after another. Although none of them did actually act on his wise advice and made real avail of his presence, he had left behind an inextinguishable spirit of love, mercy and benevolence in the Chinese polity through all the long centuries. A few passages from his exhortations to the heads of the different states and his discourses with his disciplss will illustrate a little more his lofty ideals.
"The man of Jen has no enemy."
"Treat with the reverence due to age the elders in your own family, so that the elders in the families of others shall be similarly treated, treat with the kindness due to youth the young in your own family, so that the young 10 the families of others shall be similarly treated."
"The carrying out of his kindly heart by a prince will suffice for the love and protection of all within the four seas, and if he does not carry it out, he will not be able to protect his wife and children "
"Jen or benevolence is the most honourable dignity conferred by Hearen, and the quiet home in which man should dwell."