________________ This is why "Acharang Sutra" of Jainism repeatedly emphasizes that when you are thinking to kill a sentient being, you are really thinking to kill your own self. The same concept is expressed by Gita in verses 29, 30, 31 and 32 of Chapt. Six. These are as under translated:- " A True Yogi sees self abiding in all beings and all beings abiding in him (because) he considers himself united with all in identity and treats all with sameness." (29) "He who sees Me everywhere and everything in Me, never gets separated from Me nor do I separate Myself from him."(30) "Such a Yogi seeing Me present in all things and worships Me as dwelling in all and wherever he is, abides in Me."(31) Oh Arjun! On account of this identical unificatioin of all souls, he sees Me everywhere in happiness or pain. Thus he remains highest in My regard."(32). REALISATION OF ONENESS. According to Jainism, this universe is like a big machine whose every part - big or small, light or heavy- is equally important. True knowledge consists of the realization of oneness of all things. The apparent separateness experienced between one self and the rest is an illusion. Alan Wattssuccinctivly emphasizes this aspect in his book "Still the Mind" asking, "Does the root of a flower influence the flower as something fundamentally different from it?" He himself provides the answer, " No, surely the root and the flower are one process ane like your head and your feet it all goies together. In that sense then the universe and what you and I do , all goes together, and the picture of this universe is really the picture of you."
