Jainism

Author(s): Vallabh Smarak Nidhi
Publisher: Vallabh Smarak Nidhi

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Jainism has also produced great yogis, All the Tirthankaaas were Yogis of the highest tipe. All the Jain monks were Yogis but they were yogis of a very differenrt type from those that are met with in the history of other religions. High compassion, extreme forberance and supreme mercy were the emblems of the lives of the Jain Yogis. Instances of their patience and forbearnce, unparalleled in the history of the world are found in the Jain literature. Several Jain Yogis are recorded to have been persecuted and tortured by the followers of hostile sects and though they possessed great yogic powers by means of which they would have, if they had chosen, burnt to death their tormentors, yet, so great was their selfcontrol, so unique the power of self endurance, that they bore all with the greatest calmness, equnimity and indifference. We cannot find in the whole range af history, a single example of a Jain monk who thought of greatest tortures, lost his temper and in a way injured his persecutor. On the other hand if we read the lives of the other Hindoo saints, we find many Rishis and Munis, who have not only cursed but have in their warth destroyed their
enemies by means of their yogic powers even