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developed, respectively. In the beings of the first division they feel knowledge through touch only, the 2nd category through touch, taste; the 3rd elass through touch, taste and smell and the 4th category. through touch, taste, smell, and sight, while the 5th division has got all the five senses well developed and has got a better opportunity of understanding good and bad, true and false. It is why and how the superiority of the human being has come to be recognised over all other beings.
In order to elevate it self from stage to stage till the achievement of human form, every living being has to go through a great deal of ordeal in the Laboratory of Nature, viz they have to go through infinite births and deaths and still they may not. easily reacli the human stage. There may be many pitfalls and slips between the cup and the lip, from the highest summit he may at once fall to the abasyes. The process is complicated and laborious as to throw a ring in the mid-ocean and go after its search. This receding process is all due to the sins we are committing, thongh unconsciously, and this is the cause of the complication. Thus to come to the point at issue, there is greater sin in killing beings of two senses than in killing those of one sense, and so on; the enormity of sin incaeases in each successive step. In the common experience of the world, we know that ordinary mud has little value; but pots etc made from the same have got more value and further, if they undergo workmanship and ornamentation, they fetch higher value, because of the process they undergone. Another instance is that the death of:an adult person who is the pillar of the familly causes more sorrow for the family members than the death of a young child. So also the assasination of a big illustrious person or a king is considered more heinous and cruel than that of an ordinary being. In ths kingdom of nature, the killing of å man is met writh the severest punishment by nature herself. Our ancient seers had therefore given out this future by writing. so many books on the Science of life, so that the man, the highest ornament in the scale of evolution may not commit the destruction of life through
| SR No. | 010679 |
| Book Title | Jiva Vichar Prakaranam |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay |
| Publisher | Ratnaprabhvijay |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 240 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 33 MB |