Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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Ahimsa Mimamsa
Arambhi violence. A person who caters his daily needs on the basis of creation of worldly materials and protection, he is incapable to renounce and leave this non-violence. There is definite various types of violence involved to run the house hold. But in such circumstances, one should take care that the violence remains at minimum level and can be avoided.
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Udyogi violence is such a violence which attracts the activities carried out for the maintenance of the family, for the purpose of business, agriculture. Every soul has to perform it as an duty either one is saint or normal man, or animal.
' न हि कश्चित् क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत' It means that not a single person remains without doing any work. One cannot get freedom from the activities while behaving nonworkohalic, idle and lazy. The mind of the manav(human) is the basic source of all the activities. Worldly and Sansarik persons have to perform Udyogi violence to maintain their daily needs. In this too, every soul if wisdomfully takes care and acting wisely can avoid violence.
To save, to protect and to defeat the injustice caused at the time of external invasion by the enemy towards country, town, family and even one's own self, protection of liberty and for the maintainance of peace, the kind of war declared is called Virodhi violence or defending violence. This is in reply to the invasion forced upon. For the causes of protection, safe guarding our intentions, the violence performed is called Virodhi violence. They are incapable to renounce such violence who desire to keep their control over all worldly instituitions.
Out of these four levels of Violences, if uncalled for all acting violence, carried out through attachment temmptations, desire, greediness can be renounced, it would be the best. If