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MUTUAL COOPERATION Jam icchasi appaņato, jam ca na icchasi appaņato | Tam iccha parassa vi, ettiyagam Jiņasāsaņayam ||
· Vrhatkalpabhāsya, 4584. What you wish for yourself and what you do not wish for yourself, wish the same for the others as well. This is the essence of the discipline propounded by the Lords Jina. Jaha me itthāṇitthe suhāsuhe taha savvajīvāņam ||
- Ācārānga Cūrņi, 1.1.6. As the pleasure and pain are desirable and undesirable for me so are they for all the living beings.
Parasparopagraho jīvānām | - Tattvārtha sūtra, 5.21. All living beings coexist and benefit from each other.
Ātmavat sarvasattveșu sukhaduḥkhayoh priyāpriyatvadarśanena parapidāparihārecchā|
- Šāstravārtā sīkā, 9.5. Knowing that pleasure and pain are respectively desirable and undesirable for all living beings we must try to mitigate the pains of others like we try to do the same for ourselves.
Comments - Thinking that other living beings also desire pleasure and do not desire pain, we must treat them accordingly. In the Acārānga Cūrņi, a parallel has been drawn between the self and the others. The message of Sūtra-krtānga, contained in its aphorism, *Āyatule payāsu' is also similar. A proper human and humane behaviour with others is possible only after this realisation. The Samskrta literature also conveys the same message in 'Atmanaḥ pratikūlāni pareșām na samācaret' that is, we ought not to treat others in a way that we do not like for ourselves. One ought always to remember that as the adversity and bad behaviour are painful and undesirable for one, so are these for the others.
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