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MOTHERLY, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE A PICTURE WORTH 1,000, may be 10,000 WORDS
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This picture by Hindustan Times lensman Himanshu Vyas (right) has won the IFRA Gold Award for News Photography, General News. Vyas had heard about an orphan fawn being looked after by a Bishnoi woman near his hometown Jodhpur. At the mud dwelling, he noticed the fawn playing with her children. "When hungry, the woman breastfed the fawn and her daughter simultaneously. Wildlife activism is publicised around the world. But this connect between man and nature is unparalleled," he says.
This is an unparalleled sacrifice and example of the unity of all lives. There cannot be any better Religion than this on Earth. This is called Humanity, the sum-total of all dogmas, worship, and rituals. It is applied ahimsa. Here is real Jainism in practice -"Ahimsa Paramo Dharma.”
TEACHERS FOR AHIMSA PROGRAM Three years ago, one High School teacher Ms. Laura Hirshfield from Boston, Massachusetts called and said “Dr. Jain, our kids in US schools see and learn violence (himsa) everywhere and every day but who is going to teach them about ahimsa (nonviolence)? She was referring to the killing and gun shooting
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