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RELEVANCE OF NON-VIOLENCEIN MORDEN LIFE :
mutual help, love, kindness and compassion shown by one living being for another that makes the world a fit place to live. Nonviolence is, therefore, a practical necessity in the world to-day.
Nature of Violence
Violence is caused by injuring vitalities (prāņa) by reckless or passionate activity. There are in all ten vitalities with which living beings are blessed, the number depending upon the evolution of soul due to its past karmas. These are five sense organs (touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing), respiration, life-duration, energy or body, organ of speech and mind. The number of vitalities vary from class to class i.e. one sensed beings have only four vitalities while the five sensed beings have ten vitalities. In the same manner, the quantum of violence involved in causing pain or injury to different classes of creatures also vary. Thus the infringement of non-violence and defilement of soul is greater in killing an animal than in cutting a tree.
Violence is caused by passions and carelessness. Lord Mahāvīra said, "Anger, conceit, deceit and greed are four powerful enemies which stimulate sinful deeds. One who desires his well-being should renounce these four faults"6 The activities are of three types --- activity of mind, speech and body called as yoga. Thus we observe that violence is any activity caused by carelessness and which results in injuring any of the ten vitalities of living beings. Abjuring such activity is observation of non-violence. Let us examine four states of conduct of a person. 1. There is no carelessness and also no injury to vitalities of a
living being There is no carelessness but there is injury to vitalities of a living being There is carelessness but no injury to vitalities of a living
being. 4. . There is carelessness as well as injury to vitalities of a living
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| SR No. | 525028 |
| Book Title | Sramana 1996 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ashok Kumar Singh |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 1996 |
| Total Pages | 128 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |