Tulsi Prajna 2005 01

SR No.: 524622
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 110
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 5 MB

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harm by making one an instrument. How far am I instrumental for their emancipation? But some make me the means of hell. What a pity ? This thinking used to fill his heart with compassion. Thus he was free from all kinds of feeling, friendly or hostile. (2) Self-restraint:
Mahavira was an apostle of non-violence. The stream of non-violence flows in between these two banks i.e. self-restraint and compassion. Sometimes compassion bereft of non-violence leads astray and one becomes violent. Hence, it is but essential that compassion must be followed by self-restraint and vice-versa. It is an essential co-ordination. The compassion which aims at the eradication of inflections of one, is not full and it is not apprehensible. The sources of troubles are innumerable. If one tries to eradicate all the sources of trouble he will be entangled in the acts of violence. Just go get rid of this enigma Lord defined Ahimsa in the negative way non-violence is Ahimsa. In social life one should control his emotions and practise self restraint, so that nobody becomes a victim of his violent activity. One who practices self-restraint his cruelty is washed off, humility emerges. Self-restraint means controlling of all the senses, limiting one's own desires and ambitions, limiting the use of commodities, limiting the field of activity. (3) Peaceful co-existence
The norm of non-violence in positive form is only connected with the soul, hence it has individualistic value. But when thousands of people live peacefully and harmoniously in the society without harming each other, the social value of Ahimsa is experienced automatically. This gives stability to the society. Co-existence of the people of different norms and thinking is the result of non-violence. This should be enhanced by all. (4) Tolerance of others:
This world is full of contradictory thoughts. All differ from one another. This is one of the causes of difference. People are so accustomed to their own views that they are not able to with-stand the opposite views and thus the cold war begins. The theory of non-absolutism which is the product of non-violence, has not been well understood, hence this troublesome situation has emerged. The theory of non-absolutism teaches that all the people should tolerate the thoughts or others, whether those thoughts are apprehended by one or not, whether they are in accordance with his own thought or not. Anekant says that you should reach oneness in
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