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Gospels of Lord Mahavira
of all ranks along with Rajas and Maharajas without any differentiation and they got converted to his religion being impressed by his teachings. Sramana Lord Mahâvîra gave his sermons against the violence in sacrifices. He proclaimed the baselessness of Kriyakanda and warned the entire humanity against false glamours and false suppositions. He spoke in unequivocal terms that animal sacrifice could not take the place of religion. One could not be religious without purifying one's conduct. Man's uplift is not in the hands of God or any other being beyond and above the worldly existence. Man is the architect of his own fortune. He can himself become high or low according to his own deeds and misdeeds. So, he preached self-purification to be the only religion.
Mahâvîra did not accept God as the creator of the universe. 19 He held that by accepting the existence of God, man accepts Him as the cause of all his good and bad qualities as responsible for all his deeds and thereby reduces himself to the position of an inactive being. Mahâvîra preached that the governance of the universe is not in God's hands, the world being without a beginning or end. The world is existing as it is from time immemorial. Every individual is himself the creator and the created. His uplift and decline both are in his own hands. Good or bad whatever work he performs ends in corresponding results. Existence or non-existence is not an absolute entity. Changeability is inherent in the nature of things. Every thing is changing by the force of its own nature and there can be no creator of this world as its very nature connotes..
Man commits mistakes by virtue of his own ignorance and egoism and thereby binds himself in this world. But when he evolves restraint, renunciation and distinctions he attains his perfection. Equal power inheres in the soul of all creatures but its manifestation is not equal in all of them. The individual being is developing its inherent power through its own efforts and when it succeeds in developing it fully it attains godhood. In the attainment of its position, caste, sex, class or community is no bar; everyone through his or her own efforts can rise to the height of godhood.
The soul20 is of three categories, Extorvert soul, Introvert soul and the Perfect soul or paramatma. That soul which assumes external physical body as the soul and the bodily activities, is the
| SR No. | 023277 |
| Book Title | Lord Mahavira Vol 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | S C Rampuria |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati Institute |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 244 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 21 MB |