Positive Non Violence

Author(s): Kanhaiyalal Lodha, Dalpatsingh Baya
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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POSITIVE NON-VIOLENCE:
THE ĀGAMIC ESSENCE
SERVICE TO THE ILL AND THE MISERABLE IS SERVICE
TO GOD THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN BHAGVĀN MAHĀVĪRA
AND GAŅADHARA GAUTAMA “Kim Bhante! jo gilāņam padiyarai se dhaņņe udāhu je tumam damsaņeņa padivajjai?”
"Goyama! je gilāņam padiyarai l”
Se keņađịheṇam Bhante! evam vuccai?” Goyama! Je gilāņam padiyarai se mam daṁsaņeņa paļivajjai | Je mam damsaņeņa pațivajjai se gilāņam padiyarai tti | Āņākaraṇa-sāram khu Arahantāṇam damsaņam | Goyama! evam vuccai - "Je gilāņam padiyarai se mam paờivajjai | Je mam paļivajjai se gilāņam padivajjail” - Āvaśyakasūtra, Haribhadra (comm.), Agamodaya Samiti, Surat, 1917, folio 66162.
“Lord! Who is blessed, the one who serves the ill and the miserable or the one who serves you?”
“Gautama! The one who serves the ill and the miserable.” “Lord! Why do you say so?”
"Gautama! One, who serves the ill and the miserable, serves me and the one who serves me, serves the ill and the miserable.
This is the essence of the Arihanta's teaching. Therefore, O' Gautama! I say that the one who serves the ill and the miserable, serves me and the one who serves me serves the ill and the miserable."