Tulsi Prajna 2002 04

SR No.: 524611
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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1.14 assim loe pavvahie.
In this world, thus afflicted, miserable indeed are the people.
Bhasyam Sutra 14
The person of above mentioned character is subject to suffering. He cannot earn what he wants without indulging in violence. That is why he is engaged in acts of injury to life.
1.15 tattha tattha pudho pasa, āturā paritävemti.
Look, with different intentions and purposes, passionate people are indulging in acts of violence.
Bhāṣyam Sutra 15
The Lord invites the disciple to look for himself: Only the person afflicted with anguish and anger are engaged in various undertakings such as putting up dwelling places and the like involving injury to life. Afraid of death. they inflict violence on earth-bodied creatures, guided by the principle that a living being is an indispensible source of life to another living being. Similarly, the passionate persons dominated by desires for the sensual objects torture the earth-bodied beings to satisfy their own hankering after those objects.
1.16 samti päṇā pudho siyā.
There are beings inhabiting individual bodies.
Bhasyam Sūtra 16
The earth-bodied beings live in individual bodies. It is not possible to have an insight into the urge for violence until and unless the nature of soul is known. This applies to the principle of ahimsa too. It is, therefore, necessary to have a firm knowledge about soul to start with. Lord Mahāvīra propounded the doctrine of six classes of souls, namely, earth-bodied, water-bodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied and plant-bodied, and the mobile creatures". In the present section the comprehension of the nature of violence to the earthbodied beings is explained. This thesis is: There is life in the elements of earth too. The heretical teachers of those times refused to believe that earth had life. The thesis was a novel theory. There are beings living in 'individual' bodies, that is, separate bodies of their own. The Vrtti gives another meaning of 'living in different bodies' which is 'living in the bodies made of earth'.
The present chapter started with the description of the earth-bodied beings and the like instead of speaking of the humans. This is because, the central theme of the Acaränga is the principle of soul in general. The main concern
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