Mahavira Life and Philosophy

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

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gated, amazing changes and shows on the world stage. Like creates like. An iron ring cannot be created out of gold. Likewise the imperfect soul cannot be the handiwork of a blissfull, perfoct and omniscient Being. People, unable to grasp the working of the karmas, erroneously put the burden upon the perfect, pate and liberated souls. If the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary debert of dead-habits, the solution of worldly working through the media of materini karmic forces would receive due attention of the right thinking, impartial and judicious people. Complete Truth -
It is universally acknowledged that the world teacher dealt with the philosophy of 'Live, let live and help others to live', and also brought about intellectual understanding through the Syadvada doctrine or philosophy of stand-points! The sermons which were delivered by the Omniscient Lord for thirty years dealt with philosophy,history,geography, ethics, cosmology and all sciences and arts. Unfor tunately major portion of the teachings is lost into oblivion and hundreds of thousands of Jain books were destroyed by the fury of bigoted fanatics who wore opposed to this religion of the Shramanas. The remaining Jain literature is still precious, valuable and conspicuous, ,