JAINA Convention 2015 07 Atlanta GA

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Manav Mandir Mission Trust
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Dharma does not give much importance to the outward conduct if its source is not from the inner awareness. At the level of outward conduct someone may be moral and upright. But at the level of inner consciousness the same person may be immoral and licentious. He does not come up to the mark at the touch-stone of dharma. Khalil Jibran has written that there are many liars who have never told a lie. There are many slaughterers who have not spilled even a single drop of blood. There are many immodest persons who have not even touched women. All the above mentioned persons can be moral but not religious. Dharma is a revolution of the inner self in absolute change of the being
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Dharma is a Total Change of Mind
We can change only the external conduct of the person through precepts, books of moral codes, rules and punitive measures. Its response is very suppressive in character. Suppression does not exterminate it. In fact, it is stored into the unconscious mind and gives birth to numerous mental ailments. The medieval European priests were turned into masochists through suppression of sex. They began getting sex pleasure by flagellating themselves and lying upon a bed of nails. Marquis de Sade began seeking pleasure in torturing others and letting out his repressed sexuality. He began getting pleasure in injuring others with a knife, and in biting them and flogging them. A suppressed sexuality is turned into cruelty. And thus one begins getting pleasure in torturing oneself or others. So, from the process of suppression, religiousness cannot be
born.
There is a person who does not kill someone with a sword because he has faith in non-violence at the level of thought. Suppressed violence rises from sword into pen. There are
numerous ways of murdering others. Someone may kill some other with a pen, through starvation, by exploitation and with poverty as well. Violence is our naked selfishness that lies within us. It is our arrogant instinct of breaking down the life-style of someone and thrusting one from self. It can only be eliminated when one remains in the inner world and everywhere one sees only oneself. Only then are spontaneously born non-accumulation and oneness. It is without any precept and without any weapon.
This is the meaning of Mahavira the one who sees life and the world in its original form does not need percepts. And the one who fails in seeing it remains unaffected by any precept. The root of dharma is to bring about in absolute transformation of the inner being in whose absence no existence and meaning can exist
Mahavira's sadhana is not based on suppression but on awareness. That is not based on external conduct but in
a transformation of the inner self. It is not based on any precept but on an awareness of the inner being. Only such an awareness brings about a transformation in a men. Only the outside discipline perverts him, does not make him cultured. So, our lord has said perceive this world and life with open eyes'. Attachment towards it is a sort of bondage and avarice, of another sort. Both are the opposites of each other. The existence of opposite aspects is interdependent. Either of these does not have its own. determining authority. That what is above "aspects and counter aspects" can form a base of inner revolution and of Veertaragta (passionless ness). This is the secret of Mahavira's Vectaragta (passionless-ness).
Muni Roopchandra
Argon that takes no account of practical afficers and does not help to sobre them is no religion
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With Blessings Motivation, Inspiration and Guidance from religious and spiritual pioneer, Acharya Sushil Kumar Ji Maharaj
"Non-violence is the key to Global Survival" -Acharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj
CONGRATULATIONS TO JAINA
FOR CONTINUED SERVICE TO JAINISM & JAINS IN NORTH AMERICA -JAIN FAMILY (NEERAJ & PARVEEN, RUPALI AND PUNEET, NAVITA & MAN (SAN JOSE, CA, JULY 2015)
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