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other to do violence, nor support it, is a true balanced person and also a real Shraman.
A blood-stained cloth cannot be cleaned by blood though washed several times. Likewise violence cannot be stopped by violence. It can be stopped only by non-viol. ence, co-operation and compassion. One who inflicts vio lence, to others may not do harm to them but he, at least, harms himself. Therefore, the negative aspect of non-violence is not to molest any one and the positive aspect is to give comfort to all. This principle is the basis of equanimous-yoga. An equanimous heart is tender because it cannot overlook the suffering of others. One who does not have empathy with a crying-heart is no more a compassionate person about whom it is supposed that such a person will even sacrifice his own self for others.
Till the Final Stage of Self Rendition :
The final stage of self realisation is self rendition. For the creation of quiescent (Equanimous) state-more dignified then relinquishment, services, and equanimous Vision to become self-cblivious and even efface one's identity for the achievement of the goal-is the greatest austerity. On reaching this final stage of self-evolution through this medium of Severe austerity, competence of realising Supreme Being engenders.
It is the ideal of spiritual equality that no soul could get distinction without its own efforts nor by the efforts of others. It means that Supreme Soul is not a separate entitythe soul itself becomes supreme on the basis of its efforts. It is useless to imagine a Supreme Soul who was supreme from indefinite time and was the propeller of the universe.
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