Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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Ahimsa Mimamsa with the kidnapping of our woman, then with the kidnapping of other woman, other may not feel the same pain?
Lord Mahavira had, therefore, proclaimed “HA TO Gemi कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः ।" The reason of happiness and unhappiness is the human mind only. We run after the outer pretexts imaging happiness and unhappiness and as a result experience impatientness and uneasiness. The belief about happiness and unhappiness have also been changed in the present materiallistic world. The worldly matter if possessed by some one and that is not with us, that is unhappiness for us. Similarly, whatever, we have got and other do not possess the same that is happiness for us. Such unequal definition is widely spread over. We can therfore say that either happiness or unhappiness does not depend upon external pretexts but it relies upon our internal factors. Instead of running behind the external reasons to either obtain happiness or to remove unhappiness, we should better concentrate on our internal factors.
'अज्झत्थं सव्वओ सव्व, दिस्स पाणे पियायए ।
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While knowing the root cause of comfort and discomfort, arriving from all the directions lies internally, and understanding that each living specy loves its own soul, those who have retired from faults of fear and spite they do not kill any animal.
In this way, a religion means an act which creates the highest quality of life for us. In this manner experienceing our pratical one-ness with all the souls or understanding that whatever comforts and discomforts experienced by me are also experienced in the similar way .by others, and therefore not to cause pains to others or controlling the tendenceis of attachments, spite, passion, anger, greed, pride and fascina