Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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Ahimsa Mimamsa
36 become non-attached if one can stay away from attachment and spite.
All the religious traditions have proclaimed for love and affections. Lord Mahavira moves further and talk about nonattachment state. Attachment and spite are the either side of the coin.
Some person creates attachment towards some property. He will try to occupy the same forcibly. He will reach the stage of Violence to obtain the same. Similarly, some one has attachment towards a beautiful lady. Perhaps he can give the name “Love" to that attachment. He may also turn violent rapist to enjoy such beauty. Hence an attachment appears first and spite next and ends in violence. Therefore attachment could be termed the starting point. Non-attachment is the mother of non-violence. MENTAL VIOLENCE-MATERIALLISTIC VIOLENCE:
Jaina philosophers have mentioned two kinds of Violence, affectionate Violence and materiallistic Violence. Earlier, we saw about mental Violence. Mental Violence means, where there is no direct Violence involved to kill any animal, nor the same is freed from life, nor it can be given pain, however the soul surrounds itself with the intentions of Violence internally. Such Violence is called affectionate Vi lence.
This kind of Violence makes man more wicked. When the bad and dirty intentions, such as spite, enmity, or false volitions towards some one or theft, adultery are produced in the mind, the soul is surrounded by sentimental Violence.
As mentioned above, not a single animal is hurt due to sentimental Violence. Own self is damaged and, own self is destroyed. When the anger is created in the mind at that time if some is being damaged or not but as the mind of angry person is excited, his thoughts turns disturbed. This is the