In Search Of Ultimate

Author(s): Vinod Kapashi
Publisher: Mahavir Foundation Publication

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In Search of the ultimate
As we have ups and downs (in our life), plants have ups and downs. As we have irregularities in our life), so plants have some irregularities.
(1/5/44)
Some kill living beings for sacrificial purposes, some kill for their skins, some kill for their flesh, some for their blood, some for their heart, some for their liver, some for their fat, some for their feathers, some for their tails. some for their hair, some kill for their horns, some for their teeth, (or tusks), some for their nails, some for their veins (sinews), some for their bones, some for the inner parts of their bones, -some with specific reasons, some without reason. Some kill because they have been wounded or are being wounded by them or because they think their life is in danger.
He who is disinclined from killing the smallest living beings knows what suffering is, because he who knows his own happiness and pains, knows others' happiness and pains, and he who knows others feelings knows his own feelings. This is the way he must compare himself with others. He who has obtained this knowledge would not wish to live after killing other living beings. (1/6/55)
Life after life (birth and re-birth) is due to love of materialistic pleasure and hence love of materialistic pleasure is due to birth and rebirth, that is why one who seeks materialistic pleasures becomes ignorant and suffers from physical and mental pains. Ideas like MY mother, my father, my brother, my sister, my connections, my property, my wealth, my food, my clothing etc. lead to life-long apathy. (2/1/65) (So) intelligent man should not waste a minute because beauty and age are decreasing. (2/ 1/69)
While the perceptions of his ear and eyes are not weakened and while his senses of smell, taste and touch are not decreased it is