Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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Ahimsa Mimamsa
you are the only one, you wish to become slave.....etc.,
No one desires to kill own self. If other's soul is not different than mine then to whom I shall kill ? There is an experience of this oneness on the level of existance. The soul is violence and the same is non-violance. There is oneness between each and every soul, and that is termed as nonviolence. Lord Mahavir has declared through his discourses that there exhists identical vitality in every soul of the whole world. Each soul has desire to receive identical happiness. Therefore all the souls of the world should consider the souls of others, equal to their souls. An act, talk and behaviour which causes pains, damages and miseries to us, such acts should not be done towards others. When the distance between own self and others will be diminished then the accomplishment of non-violance will the successful. Otherwise it would become only hypocracy-false show, external face (Mask). Though there is difference of personalities, there is equality in both's religion, and that is disliking of miseries, here is an example.
In the early ages there was predominant society called ‘Panchyat'. The decision of the Panch was considered to be final and respected as good as that of the judge. There was a quarrel related to property between two brothers. The matter reached to Panch, for justice. Elder brother established as accussed. But he was reluctant to accept accussations. The justice given by Panch should be considered as unanimons and religious justice. It is then decided to heat the frying pan according to tradition of that period. That hot frying pan should be kept on the hand of accussed. If the hand does not get burns mark then the accussed is acquitted and if the case is reverse then the accussation proved to be correct.