Glory Of Jainism

SR No.: 269278
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Total Pages: 39
Language: English
Classification: Article
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- 28 ness is considered the biggest crime then causing injury to a creature of lower consciousness. In the view of Jaina thinkers, the protoplasm is only an object of vibrations and not life. Wainism always considers it as a great sin to eat non-vegetarian food as compared to the sin involved in eating vegetarian food. The consciousness is also found in animals and plants, but the difference between the consciousness existing in the animal and that of the plant is vast. The animal has many times more consciousness than the plant; and that the energy of intelligenoy is more apparent in animal kingdom than in the plant life is a lact which cannot be controverted by any sensible person. Therefore everything is measured upon knowledge and consciousness according to Jaina philosophy. In our temporal life, a leaders life is considered more precious than that of thousands of average persons, because of the fact that the leaders' domina ting knowledge, Intelligence and experience over the average person are more valuable and also indispensable to the welfare of mankind. Even in mechanical vehicles like steamships, trains and aeroplanes, the life of the captain, crew, drivers and mechanics are considered more essential in view of the fact that the life of the passengers lay in their hands and they controlled their safety. Similarly in an epidemic, the life of the medical the officer is more valuable than the patiente because of the fact that the treatment & these patients, their recovery and survival lay in his hands. The doctor should attend on thousand of patients to give them life and hence his life is more precious than that of the patients. His morledge of the medical science acquired after ..23.