Glory Of Jainism

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is why man is considered as the crown creation because of his majestic power of knowledge, intelligence and intellectual attainments. Nature has provided more facilities and conforte to man and has also given him exceptional preference for possessing and developing supreme knowledge compared to any other creature of the entire universe. Therefore, man should romain, loyal, faithful, obedient and responsive to Nature and her mighty rule. The first and foremost duty of nan is to avoid harming the knowledge faculties of other living beings to his utmost possibility. Hence, in this world, we must lead our life on economioal and mathematical principles. When there is no other way of avoiding harn and injury to others for maintaining our livelihood, we must give first preferenee to non-injury and harml assne 88 to living beings of more developed faculties of mowls dge and consciousness.. Therefore, when man can maintain himself with vegetarian food and survive in this world in full enjoyment of perfect health, it is undoubtedly a great and papardonable crime on his part to live on non-vegetarian food. In consequenoe of such unauthorised action of consuming non-vegetarian food, he will be taken to trial in the Cosmio Court of Law for violating the law of nature. All our undesirable and unpleasant vicissitudes and actions in life are bom out of such criminal crimes of injuring and doing harn to other living creatures, consuming improper and delusion making non-vegetarian food and developing impure and contaminated faculties and visions the insurmountable barriers against the attainment of self-enlightenment and the ultimate freedom of self-realisation. After deep study and observation of the metaphysics