Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 47 of his merits, will bound to show a feeling of respect for him. If a tribal woman "BHEELNI (916 ) does not know the great value of a diamond, it does not mean that the diamond is not valuable. Bheelni is ignorant about its value while a Jeweller is fully aware of its value. If a man shuts his eyes, while seeing others, it does not mean that he has no eyes. Other people do see him, without any kind of loss. The man, who wants to be virtuous, should pay due respect to the virtues of a man or a virtuous man.
All beings may take their birth in four kinds (i) Celestial being (ii) human being (iii) Animal - creatures and the fourth is infernal beings. All these four beings are chiefly possessed with the passions of anger, pride, deceit and Greed which are four demerits of a worldly being. But the passion of anger is being taken as the greatest demerit for a human being but we are to examine as to when and why does this anger-passion appear in a human being ? It rises only when we feel some trouble from the man in position and to suppress this feeling of trouble, anger develops in a man. If he fails to conquer the opposite man with his feeling of anger, then he tries his best to suppress them with all his might. Feeling of anguish, if not suppressed, may lead a man either to quarrelling attitude or to sacrifice oneself in protecting his own self from intolerable passion of anguish. Anger comes only when we think the opposite as superior or more powerful than we are. Same is the conditional status of Deceit and Greed. We become deceitful towards others only when we think that the opposite one is unconquerrable and we want to overwin him. In the feelings of greed, we attach more importance to others but pride is such a powerful demerit that a man forgets to pay respect to others and elders. Out of these four demerits the first and foremost demerit is the passion of pride which is supremely found in the human being. Anger is chiefly found in Ladies, Deceit in animals and greed in celestial beings. But the man is totally under the bondage of pride and due to this evil feeling of proudness he used to remain blind towards it, even after realising it. And that is why the feeling of proudness is the root cause of destruction of Human philosophy or DHARMA. Hence man is advised first to overcome or conquer the passion of proudness because without conquering it all our merits are demolished or destroyed; and by winning over this one demerit he can get success in all other walks of life.
यदि पाप-निरोधोऽन्य सम्पदा किं प्रयोजनं ।।
अथ पापास्त्रवोऽस्त्यन्य-सम्पदा किं प्रयोजनं ॥२७॥ Explanation :
If there be cessation of sin, other things wealth, prosperity etc. are not needed, - (sinlessness being the source of bliss itself) but if