Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 7 as you were bom; so sucking up my milk, you also came to grow up along with my off springs. This is the reality". Now nothing remained more; he realised the truth very well and he believed himself firmly to be a lion. He was completely different from jackals and that he had the power and strength of combating with the elephants and to make them ran away. Then he started springing like a lion and began to attack on big and powerful elephants. In the same way this embodied soul (JIVATMA), deeply atttracted towards the body. is wandering in this world since times Immemorial and becoming a timid and coward like a jackal. The great saints and spiritualists have tried to reveal him the fact of eternal bliss but the soul fails to understand the same. But after realising through the substantive aspect of time and sayings, he suddenly gets inside a glimpse of Divine Light and he begins to feel the supreme status of Godhood, perfection of knowledge, immortal and imperishable divinity in himself. He characterises himself different from the body which has an averse aptitude, being 'Pudgal' Every soul is potentially omniscient, having no relation with the outer world e.g. with a wife or a son, having no dependent relation with the soul. Soul and body are two different realities and entities.
The soul realises that 'he' has been unnecessary assuming the Materialistic attachment with the worldly relatives and thus accummulating sins of various kinds. He deeply feels how he is proving an obstacle for other living beings due to sheer feeling of his selfishness. He exclaims with sorrow (repents) again and again and further determines himself not to create obstacles on the path of others. This new concept provides him with immense energy of being helpful to others. It is then named Non-Voilence and this is the real Dharma'-AHIMSA.
परमार्थानामाप्तागम - तपो - भृताम् । सम्यग्दर्शन-मस्मयम् ॥४॥
श्रद्धानं त्रिमूढ़ा - पोढमष्टाङ्गं
Exlamation :
To believe, by fulfilling the eight requirements of true belief, and without the three kinds of error and eight kinds of pride, in the true God, Scripture and Preceptor, the causes of the highest good [i.e. Moksa] is called the Right Faith.
The belief that the Jain Tirthankaras are the true Gods, Jain Sastras the true Scriptures and the Jain Saints-the true Preceptors is called Right Faith. The true believer should satisfy the eight requirements described in verses ahead and should be free from three kinds of error and eight kinds of pride.