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sermon of universal love and friendship towards minutest of the minute Jeevas (living beings) and protection to even those who do evil or even think evil, in short one finds in it the sole desire to wish good even to such persons.
we at once begin to for help. When this inflict any injury on
If a thorn pricks us whine and shout and cry is the case, how can we any other beings? Would they not feel pain ? All experience pain as we do; life is the most. precious of all things. Even by spending countless wealth, life that once departs cannot be regained.
Compared to other living beings man has a better sense of understanding and he is also more able. Therefore, it becomes his first duty to protect the weak. To deprive others of their happiness, merely for one's own sensual pleasure or enjoyment is a sheer brute sentiment and absurd conduct.
To kill helpless dumb creatures who are unable to give expression to their sentiment and who are weak, out of selfish motives, is injustice, diabolic and infernal. It is devoid of all humanity and is an act of monstrous cruelty. Jineshweradevas say "Give up falsehood, falsehood also is a great sin. By uttering false
