Book Title: Bhagavana Mahavira and his Relevance in Modern Times
Author(s): Narendra Bhanavat, Prem Suman Jain, V P Bhatt
Publisher: Akhil Bharat Varshiya Sadhumargi Jain Sangh
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Lord Mahavira's Theory of Samatvayoga
(Svabhava Lakşaņa) but it is only a resultant nature, it is imposed on us by some outer factors. Whenever we have to struggle we struggle in compulsion, and whatsoever is done in compulsion cannot be a guiding principle of our life, because it does not follow from our inner nature. Thirdly, it goes against the judgments of our faculty of reasoning and the concept of natural law. If I think that nobody has any right to take my life, then on the ground of the same reasoning, I have no right to take another's life.
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The theory 'Live on others' is against the simple rule that all living beings (Atmavat Sarva Bhuteṣu) can only give us a right directive principle of living with fellow beings. The directive principle of living is not 'live on others' but live with others' or 'live for others' (parasparopagraho Jivānām).
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