Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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Ahimsa Mimamsa so that one can remain alive, can be saved and get life for some more days. This is the attachment towards life. Then the preacher of non-violence, himself sacrifices, becomes martyr, is this one called cowardness lameness ? Non-violence is the religion of brave peaple.
Gandhiji, of modern age, is the example. Gandhiji did not implement, the path of confrontation, traditional war which are in force from centuries, to release India from the slavery of English. That path was violent one. He implemented nonviolent path. He drew away the English through non-violent medium, India was released from slavery and made independent. He went on fasting, applied firmness of truth (Satyagraha) started non-co-operative movement, forced non-violent movement and entered humbly into law breaking and obtained freedom for the country. This is not the path of coward but it is the path of bravery, essence, and self confidence. The resistance by non-violence is the supreme ideology of life.
The ideology of total non-violence is not fully impractical. As soon as the person tries to move away from the attachment of wealth and body, and start moving upward, the ideology of non-violence turns to be practical. Although nonviolence remains an ideology only for the person. But it cannot be transformed fully. When the attachment of body protection will the destroyed, attraction of body becomes zero, non-attachment feelings will be produced, at that time, there will be a full transformation of non-violence. Total non-violence is impossible for the person, although the body may be required for accomplishment. Although there is no tendency of body protection, but coming forth into existence of total non-violence is impossible. Because body is for accomplishment, for phialn a tropical act, though body exists on nonattachment feelings, body remains a body. If there is body it has bodily activities. It has foodings, it moves, it has bodiiy and other activies. And all these are not possible without