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The Tirthankaras and the Aras
bequest was all done after taking into consideration the above facts and others such as led to the common good and welfare of the human society. His object was to consolidate the society and to satisfy its wants in a proper way.
Here we will compare the constitution of the human society and its wants with the constitution and wants of our own body and will prove in short how useful and important was the work of our fore-fathers for the life and stablity of the society. We can divide our body roughly into four parts:-(1) head-with which we think: (2) hands-with which we lift things and protect our body: (3) stomachwhich digests food after it is taken and which is busy day and night in turning the digested food into seven dhatus ( Life preserving fluids of the body) one after the othernamely, Rasa ( sap), Rakta (blood). Mamsa (flesh) Medas (fat) Asthi (bone) Majja (impure seman ) and Virya (seman the generative fluid of males) or Raja (the generative fluid of females)-as well as secreting waste matter such as faeces, urine, sweat, eye-secretion, ear-wax, nails and hairs etc, and ( 4 ) feet-which carry our body from one place to another. We can call these four parts of human body by the names of (1) Brahmana, (2) Kshatriya (3) Vaishya (4) Shudra or people of the fourth caste. But it is mere folly to think that the head is superior to all other limbs of human body simply because it is at the top of all because its duty is to think, because it is Brahmana (learned ); or that the hands are noble because they protect the body of a man, because they are Kshatriyas (warriors) or that the stomach is good because it supplies nourishment to the whole body, because it is Vaishya (trader and supplier of things ) and the poor feet are Shudras or ( servants) because they have got
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