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JAINISM AND ITS POWER
ed at Sri Kesaria Parsvanath. It is said that the Svetambaras shut up the Digambaras and belaboured them with brotherlyhate so that 5 died, 15 were seriously injured and 150 wounded. Not a bad record for a Jaina fratricidal fracas !
The latter-day Jainas were supposed to be so imbued with Ahimsa, that they became sick at the mere sight of blood. But it seems they have turned a new leaf. They have become virile and warrior-like. They can kill and be killed. They are not sick even at the blood of brotherly butchery. Perhaps they are still averse to killing a bug, a snake, a mosquito, a scorpion for their common religion teaches them not to take life in any form; but the life of a Svetambara or Digambara brother is a different matter. It is an eyesore, a turbulent evil and according to our Muslim brethren kill the evil-doer before he does evil. It is better to kill a Svetambara or Digambara outright than to risk our sectarian ritual being disturbed, polluted or annoyed by the existence of the heretic. It is only some such psychology that can move our deluded brethren to commit fratricide and incidentally to commit parricide also by killing the Holy traditions of the Sacred Image, who is an equal Father to both of them. It is lucky and perhaps known to the rioters that Baba Parsvanath can feel neither pain nor pleasure nor regret nor anger at their deeds or misdeeds. HE is vita-raga, unattached and beyond attachment. Therefore any punishment for their horrible sin cannot come from HIM. It must come only from the fruition of their Karma. But remote or near, such fruition is absolutely sure and unescapable. This penalty, this Nemisis or Retribution is sure to visit them and their accessories before and after the sin, in a perfectly inevitable fashion. Judas Iscariot sent meek Christ to the felons' Cross. These modern Judases ......Svetambara and Digambara......are sending Holy Jainism to the Cross of Oblivion and Universal ridicule; they are polluting all Jain temples and Holy places; they are desecrating the sanctuaries of installed Arhats and Siddhas; they are murdering Mahavira by inches; aye, they are murdering Humanity and Human Eternal Truth Itself, for Mahavira is only one unit of Divine Omniscience in a Literal Infinity of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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