Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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Money, being the medium for getting the necessities of life, as well as the luxuries for comfort and pride, and for power over others, is in the greatest demand, Useless vanity of riches and luxuries is the source of all miss-deeds and hinsa,
People, in their helplessness, do each and every thing to acquire increasing wealth and money. There is no end to this striving. The more they gain the more is their greed, Man, to satisfy his greed, inflicts injury on others in various ways by thought, word and deed. Doing harm or injury to others is "Hinsa” and Hinsa does not allow any one to rise above pettiness. Hinsa keeps one, always, down and degraded.
To rise (or to raise one's own self), Hinsa in any form must be shunned as far as practicable, and as directed and laid down in the scriptures as a gist of thousands of years of experience and practice of learned persons in the Householders' duties, activities and Dharm( religion ).
The actions, which a man does, are all projections of Molecular-effects of the internal structure within his body. Every action (by