Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth

Author(s): Shobhachad Bharilla
Publisher: Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth Prakashan Samiti Byavar

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पंचम अध्याय : १
Another important teaching of Lord Mahavir was the Doctrine of Ahimsa, --non-injury and non-violance not only to the mankind but all living beings. It is the doctrine of "Live and let live." He raised a strong voice against the Holy Vedas, because all over the country thousands of animals were being ruthlessly killed in the so-called religious sacrifices in the name of the Vedas. The doctrine of Ahimsa was revived by Mahatama Gandhi in the same form in recent years and successfully applied in the field of politics. The doctrine of Panch Sheel of Pandit Nehru is the doctrine of Ahimsa which will bring about world peace if all the Nations of the world practise it with a clean heart. An observer of this principle is enjoined to speak very cautiously lest any work of his may injure the feelings of others; he is forbidden even to think evil of others; he must shun all such actions which are likely to cause bodily injury to others; he is not to kill or eat flesh; 'Do unto others as you would be done by' is his motto; he must do, as best as he can, to make those happy who are in pain. But he will not tolerate any injustice done to him or to his country even at the cost of raising up arms against the oppressor. The Theory of Automatic Judgement : As you think, so you become' and 'As you sow, so you reap' are aphorisms to which all schools of thought subscribe and the general belief is that an accurate record of all our actions is maintained in the annals of the Almighty or His agent; the judgement is pronounced on a particular day and we are doomed accordingly. According to Einstein's Cylinder theory of the Universe our three dimensional space is a curved space and a closed space enclosing a four-dimensional continuum. One startling conclusion of this theory is that both space and time would vanish into nothing if there be no matter. We cannot conceive of space and time without matter. It is matter in which originate space and time and our universe of perception. Under the circumstances it is difficult to think of a time when there was no matter. In other words the universe is eternal. Thinking along similar lines the Jain teachers came to the conclusion that this universe was not created by anybody at any special period of time. Neither the Almighty, whom we regard as All-blissful, takes upon Himself the onerous duty of disbursing justice to the beings of this Globe. He has evolved an automatic system of delivering judgement. If we put this theory of automatic judgement in the language of modern science, it amounts to staying, that as every action of ours is preceded by a thought and every thought is preceded by a material vibration in the brain, the activities of the mind and the matter constitute a super-radio with the quintillion of living cells sending out their individual waves to be tuned in by the receiving Set in the brain. (It has been possible in recent years to make a record of the brain waves, called the encephalogram and the principle of tuning is this: if we want to tune in a particular waves from outside we must produce a wave of the same kind in our receiving set by turning the tuning know). According to Jain theory, the infiux of the tuned waves constitutes an influx of foreign matter which produces a subtle coat around the soul. We know today that energy is matter and matter is energy. This coat of fine matter, the composition of which depends upon the nature of our actions, is responsible for dragging the soul from one physical body to another and it keeps the soul bound to the confines of the universe owing to the gravitational forces of matter on matter on all sides. When this coat of subtle matter is shed off the soul by following the Path of Liberation, the latter, being the lightest substance, rises to the top of the Universe like a balloon filled with hydrogen and rests there as Pure Effulgence Divine. It cannot travel any further because
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