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Shiva, realizing the consequence, was on the run to avoid getting reduced to ashes. Well, the moral is that violence engulfs one and all, spreading its tentacles far and wide. The Bhasmasur story has the same message. At last Bhagwan Shiva assumes the form of Mohini - femme fatale - and Bhasmasur, attracted by the seductive charm began to dance and placed his hand on his head. This resulted in his own destruction. Violence is like Bhasmasur, which ultimately consumes its perpetrator.
Bhagwan Mahavir taught the lesson of non-violence more than two millennium ago and it was the key to turn man into a super being. That lesson of non-violence preached by him was not confined to 'live and let live' for the human beings but it encompassed all the living organisms such as birds and animals and the entire world of nature. Bhagwan Mahavir had said:
तुंगं न मंदराओ, आगासाओ किसाभयं नत्थि । जह तह जयंमि जाणसु, धम्ममहिंसासमं नत्थि ।।
[There is nothing in this world higher than Mountain Meru. Similarly there is no religion greater than non-violence.)
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