Book Title: Light of Nonviolence
Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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________________ I am really no different from the wild boars. So I began to look upon the boars without any fear, for fear invites attack from another being. I began to feel a divine kinship with the two boars as if they were two relatives whom I had forgotten from a past life and had just now recognized. The desire to kill or to do violence to a fellow creature of the Earth is a result of spiritual ignorance and alienation from life. In just thinking about my experience with the wild boar, I sometimes go into the highest state of consciousness, which Christ, the Buddha, Mahavira, Mohammed and so many other people, have known. Through this consciousness, one learns the most profound and deep truths about human nature, as well as the purpose and meaning of life. When I returned from the forest on the day that I saw the wild boars, I told the people of the village about meeting the boars and how I repeated the Namokar Mantra and how the boars eventually turned away from me without attacking, They could not believe me. "No one has ever seen the boar like this without suffering injury from their violent nature," they said. But I told them I did not feel any fear or violence or alienation from the boars and that the boars could receive my good feelings toward them and they felt the same Life-force that I did even though they did not understand it. The experience of the wild boars was one of my most precious sources of knowledge from my childhood days, for what it taught me about selfcontrol and divine love. 76 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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