Jaina Path of Ahimsa

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

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The Jaina Path Of Ahimsā
that is, "Hiṁsā alone is a gateway to the miserable state, it is also the ocean of sin, it is itself terrible hell and it is surely the most dense darkness.”
In the same sacred text "Iñānārņava” the futility of Himsā has been very vividly brought out as follows
निस्पृहत्वं महत्त्वं च नैराश्यं दुष्करं तपः। कायक्लेशश्च दानं च PÉTOATA1917Il 8/20
that is, “If a person is accustomed to commit injury, then his (all virtues like) selflessness, greatness, desirelessness, difficult penance, bodily suffering and liberality or munificence are worthless.”