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CONCEPT OF NON-VIOLENCE OF SIX BODIED JĪVAS IN JAINISM: 89 liberation and removal of sorrow, acts sinfully, causes other to act sinfully or approves of others acting sinfully there is violence against earth bodied beings. This detrimental act is caused by the aspirant's ignorance (meaning that he always remains deprived of awareness of right knowledge, perception or faith and conduct). The aspirant being understood properly the result of the violence, treads on the path of restraints carefully. Jalakāya or Water Bodied Jivas: Acceptance of water as a living entity or a life-form is an original Jaina concept. Bhagvāna Mahāvīra's other contemporary philosophers did not accept the water as a life-form; they only accepted the existence of their beings thriving in water. That is why the two facts categorically clarified-1. water is a living-being and 2. Numerous large and small life forms thrive in water. Water is of three types-1. sacitta or with life, 2. acitta or without life and 3. mixed or mixture of sacitta and acitta water. Water with life turns into violence of water-bodied jīvas with the use of weapons or antithetical things. The weapons against waterbodied beings are said to be as follows'- utsecana, galana, dhovana, svakāya weapon, parakāya weapon, tadubhaya weapon and bhāva weapon. Ācārānga Sūtra clearly mentions about the non-violence of water bodied biengs. It says that the mendicants who indulge in harming water-bodied beings cannot condone or renounce the sin of violence. He who does not use weapons on water-bodied beings is free of these sins (the blemish of harming and killing living beings).'' Therefore, knowing about this (the unexpressed sufferings of the water-bodied beings) one (wise man) should not harm water-bodied being himself, neither make others do so, nor approve of others doing so. He who has properly understood the violence related to the water-bodied beings is a parijñāta-karma-muni (a discerning sage or an ascetic who with a discerning attitude abandons violence)."
Agnikāya or Fire Bodied Jivas: In the religious tradition of those days water and fire were worshipped as gods but no thought was given to acts of violence against them. Considering water to be the means of purification and penance using five types of fire that of
| SR No. | 525095 |
| Book Title | Sramana 2016 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shreeprakash Pandey, Rahulkumar Singh, Omprakash Singh |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 2016 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 14 MB |