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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eighteen in all, upto the thorn of wrong faith. But here the issue under consideration is treatment involving violence. In the Sūtra, there is no mention of the approval of an evil act, but the Curni? includes that too.
2.150 siya se egayaram vipparāmusai, chasu annayaramsi kappati. It is possible that he (the heretic) chooses a particular species of living being as permissible for the violence. But in fact he indulges in violence to all the six classes of living beings. Bhajyam Sutra 1 5 0
May be, sometimes, a person causes injury to a particular class of living beings due to non-vigilance. At that time, he virtually is engaging himself in injury to all classes of living beings just as a potter while making a jar primarily causes injury to the earth-bodied beings, but incidentally he happens to do injury to water, fire, air, vegetation, and even to mobile beings.
There is an alternative way of exposition. A person who causes injury to one living being virtually causes injury to all living beings, because he has not taken the vow of abstinence from injury to all living beings. A person who does not take the vow of abstinence from injury to any living being is liable to indulging in injury to all kinds of living beings. 2.151 suhatthi lalappamāṇe saena dukkhena mūdhe vippariyasamuveti. In search of happiness he desires for it again and again. Deluded by the suffering produced by himself, he gets bewildered on attaining suffering in place of happiness.” Bhasyam Sutra 151 To the query: ‘for what purpose does a person indulge in acis of injury'? The Sūtra answers: there are two classes of people: those engaged in the search of self, and those engaged in the search of worldly pleasures. The person who is engaged in the search of worldly pleasures indulges in injury to life. He hankers after pleasure again and again. While craving for pleasure, he earns sufferings. On account of its being the cause of suffering, any kind of worldly act is in fact nothing but suffering. Being deluded on account of the suffering earned by himself, he meets adverse situations. Hankering after pleasure, he gets pain. Delusion consists in non-discrimination between the wholesome and the unwholesome, the good act and the bad act, the worthy and the unworthy of
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