Manava Dharma

Author(s): Bhurmal Shastri, Nihalchandra Jain
Publisher: Aacharya Gyansagar Vagartha Vimarsha Kendra

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MANAV DHARMA / 5 The result is that the so called civilised or cultured persons of today started hating the religion itself. But realy speaking, "Is Dharma a matter of hatredness ?" The reply is no - never, then why did it happen so? It so happend that the simple and ignorant people entrusted the reins of religion in the hands of those people, whom they believed to the utmost. But these people due to their ignorance, laziness and selfishness have distorted reality (nature) of religion, and made it a hypocracy by putting on it the justified or unjustified form of outerlook. The religion, which was really a source of internal endowment of the soul, was chained in mere rituals.
We should understand it very clearly that religion - Dharmais that which liberates the soul from the pain and misery of embodied existence and instals it in supreme bliss by destroying "Karmas", and discards all external rites and rituals. It relates directly with the perception of the soul, as is said in Manusmriti , meaning thereby that the inner soul "मनः पूत समाचरेत" of a man who indulges himself in the act of stealing , starts throbbing violently and warns him that it is a sin or undesirable action. Similarly if anybody wants to kill or injure others or becomes angry, he starts trembelling and his conscience tells him that it is not just and good . Hence it is correct to say that to cause suffering or to think of it is an evil . Contrary to it an idea of providing solace and help to others is a virtuous action and it is called 'Ahimsa' or non-voilence and this is the only chief *Dharma of mankind.
सदृष्टि -ज्ञानवृत्तानि धर्मं धर्मेश्वरा विदुः । यदीय-प्रत्यनीकानी भवन्ति भव पद्धतिः ॥३॥
Explanation :
Lord Jinendra or The Masters have described the path (to Nirvana) consists in Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right conduct; whose antithesis, Wrong belief, Wrong knowledge and Wrong conduct are the causes which prolong the bondage of souls.
The Jinendra Bhagwan is known as the “Lord of Dharma" because he himself follows the path of Three Ratnas and delivers beneficial sermons for that to all Living beings of the Universe. Description :
To renounce one body and to adopt another is an old and regular practise of the soul. For it, this world is like a dramatic stage, wherein he plays, sometimes, the role of a great Emperor or of a beggar and through such various different roles, he likes to impress or to attract the viewers. This is an act of him but if he takes or