Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 19 That is why the child always recall Ma. MA or Mother at the time of pain and trouble. Hence it can be concluded that a man is known or considered great and noble only due to his feelings of sacrifice or renunciation. Without the feelings of sacrifice (), a man or a woman is taken worst even than an animal.
पन ही पशु की होत हैं, नर का कुछ नहीं होय । नर यदि नर - करणी करे तब नारायण होय ॥
Animal and its different parts of the body are being used by the man. Shoes are made from its skin, which protect us from the thorns. But the body of a human being is so useless, and of no use to any one, so much so that it is put in fire and burnt; we have to provide bamboos to carry and a cloth to cover the dead body. Here the author advises that if a man is sincere to his duties if he walks on the path of renunciation, does not feel proudy on getting riches and uses that wealth, not for his self care but for the service and welfare of other people and who does not know weeping in the days of calamities, is a man in its real sense of Human-being. By doing these, one day, from an ordinary man, he will become a super-man, who is known as "Narayan" - the God. This is the only path of progress and divine prosperity.
इदमे - वेदृश-मेव तत्त्वं नान्यन्न चान्यथा 1 इत्यक म्पाय - साम्भोवत्सन्मार्गे ऽसंशयारुचिः 118811
Explanation :
The Eight Angas of Right Faith.
The nature of substance is as is described there in, is exactly as described, is not different, nor even otherwise - this kind of unshakable faith, steady like the unwavering lustre of the sharp edge of a sword in the "Jain siddhanta" is the first limb of Right Faith and is called the NIHSANKITA - ANGA ( नि: शंकित अंग )
Description :
As explained above, the right path of real spiritual development is in abandonment (or renunciation) done with distinctive wisdom and which is fully identical with Non-violence and to abide by this principle is the inner instinct of humanity and leaving that aside, means lack of humanity. As such, the foremost attribute of any learned and virtuous man is to walk steadily with unshakable determination on this path of Right Faith, just like the unwavering lustre of the sharp edge of a sword. Worldly people, considering wife children and wealth as their own, are deeply indulging in their love or thinking their own real