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tion upon these words of Jain saint Kundkunda expressed in his Tirukkural, "A person who has personally experienced what is injurious to his own life why should he inflict injury on other living beings ? Killing brings all other evils"
"Share your meal with the needy. Protect every living being This is the chief of all the moral precepts formulated by those well-versed in scrip tures."
"Not to kill is one good deed par excellence Next to this comes the virtue of speaking truth."
“Even though the happiness of heaven obtained by sacrifice be great, wisemen despise it as worthless, because it is won by slaughter. What comes from virtue is real happiness. All else is other than real happiness and also devoid of glory. Know ye, that wbat ought to be done by each is virtue and that what ought to be shunned by each is vice. Be pure in mind. That is just the nature of virtue. All else is empty sound and quite worthless." (Tirrukkural).
These sublime thoughts of Saint Amitgati should illumine every thinking soul, "O my Lord, make myself such, that I may always have love for all living beings, pleasure in the company of the virtuous, sympathy for the afflicted and tolerance for those perversely inclined." (Pure Thoughts).
