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pleasant dreams in imagination but their utility and significance in life is doubtful.
When we measure the ideals of Tirthankara Bhagavan Mahavira against the realisms in life, they are found to be hundered percent right.
We succinctly feel that his ideals are not the outcome of a flight of imagination, but are based on the hard realities of the ground, and their observance in life is not only possible, but is easy and effective to give peace, happiness and prosperity to life.
The doctrine and philosophy about the nature of things as propounded by Bhagavan Mahavira has been discussed at len in part two of this work. Here it will not be out of place to consider certain external items of behaviour
To make life pure, honest and happy, Bhagavan Mahavira have held up five great ideals, which are non-violence, truth, nontheft, celibacy and non-accumulation
Keeping in view their effective application in life both for the monks and the followers, he has drawn a distinction between greater and lesser versions of these ideals.
Those who make a full use of these five are called monks and those who use these according to capacity and ability are called followers Keeping in view the capacity and ability of the followers, they have been placed into eleven categories called pratimās.
The behavioral aspects of Jainism in doctrinnaire form may be known from the Caraṇānuyoga texts and their application from the careful reading of the Jaina Pnrānas
The whole universe is divided into two currents, one material and the other spiritual The material current is flowing in all its furiousness which alarms the entire universe The spiritual light in contrast is burning low, emitting a poor flicker.
