Glory Of Jainism

SR No.: 269278
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Total Pages: 39
Language: English
Classification: Article
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- 18 - concepts originally belonged to his great spiritually awakened ancestors of India, because whatever he had explained about plant life were written in the above two Sutras several centuries ago. Today, we read that there are carnivorous plants and trees in the dense forests of Africa which suck the blood of living beings like birds, animals and even man. These carnivorous tress treacherously make living beings the victims of their thirst for blood. The modus operandi of these wild trees in capturing living beings is indeed astonishing. These blood sucking plants and trees capture their victims in the same way in which the hunter captures birds and animals in snares. A plant like the rose or their lotus grown in tanks and la kes are found in the wild jungle s of Africa. These plants put out beautiful flowers in which a quantity of honey could be found which is sucked by small birds and bees. The honey of flowers is the favourite delicacy of these air borne creatures. It has been seen that when these birds and bees arrive flying near the plant in search of honey, the blossomed flowers attracting those poor creatures like the hunters snare will close up all its petals as soon as the honey seeker sits in the flower engaged in partaking the sweet drops and the poor creature is caught unawares like a rat which enters a trap in search of food. The wild plant after capturing the bird or bee will begin to suck its blood through its arteries. The carcass of the dead creature will . remain in the octopus like flower for some days and will tall to pieces under the heat of the sun. In the same way, the trees capture their victims by spreading out the bus by branches and the creeper like roots hanging from these branches which