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Jaina Acara: Siddhanta aura Svarupa
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and garlanded. There are numerous insects in both water and the petals of flowers. He asked his charioteer the reason of beasts and birds in the enclosure crying. He was told that they would all be killed to celebrate his marriage. Instantly he got them freed and renounced the world. Jainism opposes even the killing of one-sensed beings.
The six sons of a rich man were given capital punishment. The father's prayer for their release was refused. He then wanted at least one of them to be spared for the continuity of the family. Likewise householders must desist from killing at least moving insects, if not all others.
In Upäsakadasanga Ananda accepts the vow of non-killing with the help of three karanas i.e. spiritual impulses that push the soul to fulfil its mission and realise its goal as also the activities.
Sutrakṛtānga clearly states that violence generates fear and gives trouble for a long time with no rest. Nirayavälika says that Kalakama, fighting in the battle-field dies and is reborn in the fourth hell. A man while fighting is in a fierce mood. Pravacanasaroddhara says that he who hurts himself or others is bound by knowledge and vision-obscuring karma. His attitude gets perverted. As a boat with holes sinks so also the soul that has passions as its hole is drowned in the ocean of the world. Amṛtacandra says that two persons do the same work but one of them binds himself faster than the other one. This is because of the intenser emotions of the one than those of another.
He who contemplates some violent act and fails to execute it, the fruition of his evil thinking comes to rise. Later he does the act but he has already tasted the fruit of his evil thought. Another person thinks of violent act and does it immediately thereafter. He starts tasting the fruit of his contemplated action.
The seed of piety cannot sprout without pity, tenderness of feelings and compassion. It is a language which the deaf can hear and the dumb can speak. Without it all that you do is dissimulation. It gives a new turn to life. It expands and develops life in the right direction. It is of four kinds as follows:
(1) Svadaya-It is staying within oneself. Delusion takes the soul astray. It is an honest attempt to free oneself from attachment of the world. (2) Paradaya-It is to help others in their distress.
(3) Dravyadaya-None asks for trouble, be it mental, physical or relating to speech. It is to consider other souls not different from yours and so decide not to trouble others in any way.
(4) Bhāvadaya-It is to develop one's spiritual stamina which alone is lasting, for everything worldly is transient. Permanent bliss can be had only on self-realisation.
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