Manava Dharma

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

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34 / MANAV DHARMA by the whole world- Hence to win the world, it is almost essential to control and over-win the sex-passion. And that soul, who has overpowered the carnal and sex-passion, is known as JINA- most competent to be called as over powerful winner. By mitigation of sexual passionsa man is known as a winner of all kinds of worldly passions. And this is true to some extent that who has overwon the sex-passion, who has no other passions of liking ans disliking. who has no passions of pride, deceit, greed, laughter, liking and disliking, sorrow, fear and disgust- all mental evil pursuits have been overcome by that man is uttimately known as JINA - as is defined in following verse -
जितमद हर्षद्वेषो जितमोह परिषहो जित कषायः । जित जन्म मरण रोगों जित मात्सर्योजयेत स जिनः ॥
Thus a soul, who has over powered the passions of happiness. laughter and grief, all mental dispositions are subdued by that soul, is called or designated as JINA and the final verdict of Lord Jinendra Dev. is also this that every human being. must control his five senses and their relative passions.
But these worldly people, due to their ignorance and selfish motives, have become the slaves of five senses; always prepared to hurt others due to their selfish motives and do injustice without thinking about the right or the wrong. Not only this, but they tell a lie, adopt unreal measures, try to deceive others, with the result that they, not only fall in miseries or suffer, but create means of trouble and miseries for others too. This is the basic result of their own ignorance and foolishness. Hence this becomes the utmost duty of a leamed and literate man to find out the ways and means to bring them on righteous path, after removing them from the path of ignorance and evil habits. He should meditate upon this issue - how to bring the evil people on the right path ? Through the medium of sweet speech, he should make them understand, and all his own activities and actions should be performed in such a manner, that they should prove a path of ideahism to be followed by others. An example is always better then precept. The most important need is to walk on and to follow that path, on which we would like to see others to follow. But today, even the most literate and cultured men are doing contrary to this theory. All instructions and preachings would be futile if their conduct is not examplary. Let us see what a poet says about this -
पंडित और मशालची दोनों एक ही राह ।
औरों को दे चानणा आप अंधेरे माह ॥
Generally when the people march in a procession or celebration during the night time, a man with a patromax on his head, used