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anyone's viewpoint (syadvaad). It does not violate the foundation of any living being. Even if a butcher came along; he would be in his own dharma (carrying out his duty as a butcher). In the Vitarag's eyes, no one ever steps out of the bounds of his dharma (role in life), not even for a moment. No one can live even for a moment without dharma, but despite this, adharma (kashay) creeps in. An atheist may not believe in God, he may not believe in religion, but he believes in ethics, and ethics is the greatest dharma. Without ethics, there is no religion (dharma). Ethics is the foundation of a religion. Even though one does not believe in God, he is in religion (dharma) if he is being ethical. No one is without religion. There is Atma (Self), and so there has to be religion. Every person has a religion! Yes, and along with it there is also irreligion (adharma).
Religion: Partial or Impartial
Each religious sect asserts its own matagraha (obstinacy of viewpoint) and it is deep in kadagraha (entrenched in its viewpoint). They all believe that they can attain moksha through their own faith. However, they are all uncompromising and opinionated. Those who are insistent (aagrahi) will never attain moksha. Only the non-insistent (niragrahi) will attain moksha. People immersed in sects will not attain anything from reading the scriptures of that sect. When one extracts the essence of every sect, reads every scripture of every religion; then one is considered to have attained religion. What is religion (dharma)? You will not understand that until you have grasped the essence of religion. Otherwise, all who are trapped within any sect are sheep, and whoever comes out of it, are lions. The Lord says that my opinion is vitarag (absolutely devoid of attachment and abhorrence) and yours is full of attachment (raag) and abhorrence (dwesh).
All the twenty-four Tirthankars had vitarag opinion. Those who are involved in partiality (sects) do not have vitarag
