Tulsi Prajna 1992 01

SR No.: 524569
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 112
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Vol. XVII. No. 4
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from the Brahmins, especially in the worship of fire. They reckon their own to have been the primitive religion.
"The Jeynes should abstain from the following things :
From eating at night; slaying any animals; eating the fruit of those trees which yield milk, pumpkins, young bamboo plants, from eating honey, from flesh, from taking away the wealth of others, taking by violence a married woman, eating flowers, butter or cheese and worshipping the gods of another religion. To abandon these entirely is to be a proper Jeyne. They never drink intoxicating liquors. They never observe funeral ceremonies, for their law says: The spirit is separate or distinct from the body, which is composed of five elementary parts, that return to their former states after burning; to the deceased, therefore, no ceremony is due.
A man of superior abilities and knowledge should feed himself with Ghee or clarified butter, the best food while he lives in the world, for his body never returns after it is burnt.
What a man giveth, eateth or drinketh in this world is of no advantage to him, for he carries nothing with him at his end.
A man of sense should believe only what he sees with his own eyes, and should never believe what he hears from others. The foolish people of other tribes, being deficient in knowledge, spend money in vain, on account of their deceased relations, for how can a dead man feel any satisfaction in the performing of ceremonies, and the feeding of others ? A lamp no longer gives light by having oil enter it, after the flame is extinguished.
To abstain from slaughter is perfection, to kill any living creature is a sin.
For the information of mankind be it known, that the foundation of ages, or times is countless. We ought, therefore, to believe that human kind are ignorant of the true knowledge of the origin of things, which is known only to the Almighty, whose state is without beginning and end, who has obtained eternal victory over the fraility of nature and earthly affections. The Jeynes, neverthless, do not believe in a god dwelling in the Heavens, because none has seen him, but they worship their high priests, who by sublime penance, have risen above the frailities of human nature, as images, or incarnations of the invisible God, of whom they say, that he has no likeness and that his body may be compared to an image of transparent crystal
The Jeynes reckon two great periods of time, which they term