Ahimsa Mimansa

Author(s): Kanubhai Sheth, Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: SKPG Jain Philosophical and Literary Research Centre

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Ahimsa Mimamsa We may find the stream of compassion flowing while examining the heart of cruel human being. As for example, a buteher, whose basic business and ideology is violence, he kills, murders several, even then, when he finds, while walking through, any pained animals such as cow, horse, dog are struggling, quarreling of two animals, strong animal harrassing a weak animal, then, that butcher considered to be cruel, will offer the necessary help to those pained and harrassed animals and will try to save such weaker one, because there exists natural compassion and non-violence in his heart too. In this way there exists incomparable and uncommon gift of non-violence from nature to all the living species and human beings. NON-VIOLENCE-GODLY APPEARANCE
The place of non-violence is not less than the god. Lord Mahavir termed it Godly (Goddess). Because the faith reposed in the heart of human towards lord/god, there should have been equal faith for non-violence. In the form of certainity, non-violence is a matter of worship and centre of faith. The god is in our heart, and we need not search for thou else where. But the existance of such god is hidden behind that black curtain of violence. If the same is removed through non-violece then the form of god is possible to appear in our selves.
Various temptations are available in this world. The curtain of temptation such as violence, lust has fallen on naturally obtained non-violence, through passion-lust and sensuality. If that sensuality and passion are controlled then that curtain is removed and automatically, non-violence appears. The mind is to be controlled for that and spirituality has to be performed, one shall have to move towards super humanity so that it appears automatically. There is no need to fight out-side to incorporate non-violence. There are needs for internal struggle and control of sensuality as well as passion.