Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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Ahimsa Mimamsa tries to obtain their own facilities and pleasures. Each one has to struggle for the existance. Therefore, I considered others like me and having that belief renounced the violence. And kept away to cause pain to others. If one chooses to be unhappy, struggling then others can be treated in similar fashion. Each soul prefers happiness and keeps away from unhappiness. Therefore, I considered non-violence as prime religion and accepted the same and make my own religion in total.
In this way, the true test of the non-violence is own soul only. Religion and non-religion merits and demerits, all are the different corners related to own soul. Sometimes, it so happens that when we consider something as religion, the other person considers the same as non-religion, to that something. We may call merits, other may term it demerits and vice-a-versa, But our own soul is the real test for these merits-demerits, religion-non religion, good and bad. There are several societies, religions, difficulties, problems and relations in the world. The ultimate formulae to obtain suitable compromise for all these problems and all these relations, is the experience of own self. We become defiant, when some thing happens against our will, and we call it nonrelgion as well as demerit. The one who causes miseries and give stumbleness to other's feelings, is non relgious and sinful.
Non-violence is a moral religion. It is not exposed externally but it is introvert. It is not called religion, to cause pains, teasing, beating, exploit, snatching away of rights of others. The religion-changes according to terminology of merits-demerits. As aforesaid religion for one, may not be religion for others.
A muslim considers the kidnapping of Hindu woman is his religion and Hindu considers the kidnapping of Muslim woman his religion is this called religion for both? When we are pained