Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 33 does not hates his opponents, but marching ahead with all pleasures and happiness, he influences the whole human - world at large. As is said :
अज्ञान-तिमिर-व्याप्ति-मपा कृत्य यथायथं ।
जिन-शासन-माहात्म्य-प्रकाशः स्यातप्रभावना ॥१८॥ Explanation :
To establish the glory of Jain siddhanta', by removing in all suitable ways, the dense clouds of ignorance is "PRABHAVNA” (The eighth anga of Right FAITH)
Description :
“Jai Titi Jina" (perifalsa:) Brave and victorious, who wins over others, is called Jina. But victory over others is no victory-then, to whom does he win ? The person who wins others, is sometimes. won by others and there are some who get victory over him. For example, a king may establish his victory, by defeating a weaker king, but then in turn the first king may be defeated by other more powerful king, whose commands the defeated king shall have to obey. A Lamb is cruelly killed by a lion, but when his turn comes, the lion is killed by other more powerful Lion. It may be supposed for a while, a chakravarty sovereign has brought all the emperors of the universe under his control and obedience, but he can not be designated as JINA, because that most powerful King, before whom other powerful kings bow their heads, becomes a most helpless creature, when he happens to come in the clutches of a woman. That strongest Emperor, whose iron bondage (met pote), wearing on the body, has not been penetrated by the continuous showers of arrows, shooted by the biggest powerful kings, cracked and tored into pieces by the pointed penetration of an eye or look of a beautiful woman. As we have read and heard in Ramayan that Ravana was the strongest king Emperor, who was made even the king of heaven, the Indra, as his slave or an attendant, but. his power also became futile due to his submission to the love of Queen sita, Wife of Rama, and what trodden condition had he to face, is very well known to all readers.
The main motto to explain is that Lord Ravana-had conquerred and controlled over the people of the world, but he failed to over power his own passions, his own self, and he was over powered by the desire of sex. Not to talk of ordinary men, even the most powerful and strongest Celestials and non-celestial beings have become the slaves of sex-passion and carnal desires. And all of them, who have been over powered by this sex-passion, have to be subdued