Jaina Path of Ahimsa

Author(s): Vilas Sangve
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir Research Centre

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The Concept Of 'Himsā'
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which means “that (i.e., injury to living beings) is always harmful and injurious to himself (i.e. the wrong-doer), it is the main cause of his non-enlightenment.” Similarly, in the "Sūtrakņtārga Sūtra” all injurious activities have been categorically denounced as follows
संबुज्झमाणे उ नरे मइमं पावाउ अप्पाण निवट्टएज्जा।
Pěstcar44TS GETS HAT TRIUJE ZATOT HEHUTUT || 1.10.21 that is, “knowing that all the evils and sorrows arise from injury to living beings, and (knowing further) that it leads to unending enmity and hatred, and is the (root) cause of great fear, a wise man, who has become awakened, should refrain from all sinful activities".
On the same lines, in the “Uttarādhyayana Sūtra” any kind of injury to living beings is censured in the follwoing terms -
अज्झत्थं सव्वओ सव्वं दिस्स पाणे पियायए। # EU Tuforuit grot az it 8 11 6/6
that is "seeing that everything that happens to somebody concerns (i.e. affects) hini personally, one should be friendly towards (all) beings; being completely free from fear and hatred, one should never injure any living beings”.
In a similar strain, in the “Dasavaikālika Sūtra” practice of Himsā is prohibited on the following ground that
सव्वे जीवा वि इच्छंति जीविउं न मरिज्जिउं। CAFET MUUTÉ SR Papoiet gotzifa OT || 6/11
that is, “All living creatures (that are in this world) desire to live. Nobody wishes to die. And hence it is that the Jaina monks avoid the terrible (sin of) injury to living beings”.
Similarly, the most reprehensible nature of Himsā has been emphatically brought out in the Inānāmava’ in the following words
हिंसैव दुर्गरम् हिंसैव दरितार्णवः। हिंसैव नरकं घोरं Festa TER : 11 8/19