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which are scorched by the threefold, heat of miseries in the form of anxiety, disease and trouble, they give true message of universal peace to the entire world; they make us realize the true happiness; they dispel ignorance and through them ultimately others attain the eternal bliss of the final beatitude (moksha).
• Principles of the Jain Religion having been propounded by Veetaraga (souls with no attachment) and Sarvajna (Omniscient) are universally wide and based on truth and for that very reason their universal beneficence can be said to be established and proved.
The Jain Religion preaches that even the smallest of the small living beings (Jeevas) should be given protection and should not be hurt. It is the teaching of Jainism that all living beings in the world desire to live. Death is not desired by anyone. All desire happiness and dislike misery. Just as Indra (Lord of Gods), who rolls in unparalleled richness and is equipped with rare supernatural powers, desires to live on, so also a worm existing in excreta desires to continue its living though in excreta. Both of them are equally afraid of death. Therefore, every living being should protect every other
