Glory Of Jainism

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- 25 - Faith in the Law of Nature, Right Knowledge and Right conduct, which form the only real and royal path for attaining our emancipation, salvation and liberation. Jainism, therefore, starts with the first tenet. This tenet is the gateway to the understanding of Jaina philosophy. The Tatwartha Sutra of Umasati, the ultra-genius teacher of Jaina philosophy starts the holy scripture composed by him with the first and foremost tenet: (Put the Sanskrit term here) I have to emphasise here the most fundamental truth about the existence of life in the entire universe in the shape of invisible particles. Even in a drop of water innumerable microbes exist according to the Jaina theory and the same has been proved recently by modern science. Dr. Scarvis. by his own experiments has proved that in a drop of water 36640 moving beings could be observed. Therefore, . it is really wonderful that without any microscopic observation, how the Great Jaints could detect the tiniest of the tiny living in a drop of water. It goes without dispute that the Jaina Saints were highly developed Clairvoyant and Clairaudient teachers." We have to agree that this mundane life for its existence has to commit some kind of sin or violent actions by harming others every moment in the courte of its struggle for exdstence Water is an essential necessity for human existence and we find many microbes living even in a single drop. We cannot partake water without destroying those microbes, but the crux of this problem is that we should always keepvigilant in refraining ourselves from harming any living being however tiny it might