Book Title: Jainism by Vividus
Author(s): Ramnik V Shah
Publisher: Ramnik V Shah Canada

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________________ to women, enjoyment of all sensual pleasures or sharing with uninvited guests let alone enemies or even relatives with whom for some reason or another you have no love lost, or saints and sinners alike and practising meditative contemplation. If you give up on these vows because they are impracticable in life as you are compelled to live, the vow of non-violence on gross physical level of minute and harmful or contagious lifeforms is equally impracticable. What is desirable is, giving up the fetish of insisting upon non-violence in extreme and bringing about the balance in life by observing more of vows, say, of non-accumulation of things you may want to look better than or superior to or even equal to your friends and neighbours but do not need, of non-depriving your customers if you are dealers or small or big shop-owners, even hawkers or peddlers if you are buying consumers house servants, wile, children, those who look upon you as their support of their rightful warranties and claims, of non-attention with covetous eyes wives and daughters of others including beautiful women, models or actresses, of limiting enjoyments by not only eyes and hands but also tongues and ears and by sharing whatever little you have not only with family and friends & neighbours but also with those who may unexpectedly come to your doors or about whom you may hear but never see. The test of your evolvement is not what you appear to do but what you really are and only you know what you are. On the fetish of non-violence. I would like to draw your attention to the following startling facts of life: "ALL DNA in the living world responsible or otherwise for genetic reproduction are part of an unbroken chain of low frequency contacts. Viruses, the most primitive life-forms are central participants in the living chain of connectedness that unites us with all living creatures. From atom to organism to person, the pattern that meets us in nature is that of contact and connection. In the worid of living organisms, isolation is met nowhere. A human body consists of 1028 number of atoms and at every living

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