Mahavira Life and Philosophy

Author(s): Sumeruchand Diwakar Shastri
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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animals, eating the flesh of the butchered animals, leading dissolute and ficentibus tife of fast and corruption and similar actions are the causes of rebirth in hell. Alas; the wicked and callous heart does not remember this simple point due to infatuation and last.
The life of treachery and deceitful disposition causes the rebirth as an animal, where the fraudulent person suffers indescribable agonies.
Modesty, noble frame of mind, contented life with few necessary objects, compassionate living and slight passions etc. lead to human torm. The life of self-restraint, 'sense control, observance of austerities, noble deeds, peaceful and pious conduct lead to rebirth as a celestial being. Scientific clarification
The omniscient Lord's discourses clarified the point, that the Supreme Being or pure and perfect soul has neither direct or indirect hand in the working of the universe or fashioning of the destiny of the living beings.* The karmic forces constitute an important and potent factor to present varie
*This tarma philosophy has been explained at length in Jayadiravata, Mahadhavala, Dhavala three Jain scriptures, which comprise of one lac and seventy thousand slokas (1,70000). These works are published and have been preserved on copper plates also. There are other books on karma philosophy. Gommata Sara deals with these topics. Late Justice J. L. Jaini's Englisk translation is an outstanding cruditt work.