Ahimsa Crisis You Decide

Author(s): Sulekh C Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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This world (samsara) is comprised of two major entities: living matter (jiva) and nonliving matter (ajiva). The latter has no life at all. In the act of himsa, the perpetrator and the sufferer are always the jiva, not the ajiva, though it's possible that nonliving matter (ajiva) may be used by the jiva as a means to perform himsa. However, it is certain that, on its own, nonliving matter (ajiva) does not commit himsa, except when assisted by natural forces such as gravity, wind, water, heat, or light, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, for example, in which jivas may be harmed or killed. The difference between the two is that in natural calamities, the jivas are affected (and hence suffer), but the doer (the earthquake, for example) has no motive or intention to cause pain and suffering to others. A soul attracts and binds karmas with other souls and living matter only and not with non-living matter (ajiva or pudgal). But in this binding, one may use the help of non-living matter as a means or mechanism to do himsa to one's self or to other souls.
The following diagram shows the mechanism through which one soul (jiva), due to its transactions, attracts and binds
WHO AM I?
• Siddha is not Creator, Operator, Destroyer
Siddha Siddha is complete
(Bhagwan, perfection & bliss
Ishwar, God)
All souls can become Siddha
I can become Siddha
Others (Universe)
Jiv - souls Ajiv - matter
Space ME
Movement
Rest I am soul not body
Time All souls are equal.
All souls feel pain, sorrow & happiness Figure shows "Me,” in relationship with others and with those whom I bind karmas An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide
Transactions (Karma)
Sins/good deeds
pody
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