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wny others had joined tis creed The result was that His preaching produced a very strong influence on the public. Despite this, Lord Mahāvira never attempted to force His teaching upon others by coersive Violence. 1. Lord Mahāvira in the current popular dialect impressed
Iruth on the mind of the populace very lucidly and easily and by estal listing the Status of spirit on : dequate heights,
axakened the public from the slumber of long lnorance 2. He established that rot cnly every man ( but every being )
was entitled to secure Redemption irrespective of class Thus, he displaced class-animosity That the feelings of Love and Hatred of people may not be let loose He formulated austere Path of Conduct and that too he classified into it o, one for nionks (of a higher type ) and the other, for laity ( of a common and lower
grade ). 4. He established Upâshrayas separately for both monks and
nuns in a grand and well organised and disciplined manner. Man had 110 righ' to kill any living creature for his persoral interest Each and every bung 13 entitled to save its own existence He propounded that all being; are alike, and to it even the apparenuly microscopic living being has the potentiality of Perfection. He dealt vehement blows on the cruil cus'ums and usages of Vèc c Violence and propounding the principle of Non-Violence which composises everything ih it is benefic'al to the world, established a pre-eminent i eight for the law of Alumsā ( non hilling ) He inrlicly marie it clear that in the attainment of Perfec. 110n no man nor a living being requires the aid of any one else and thus he showed that the nrinciple of invocation of deities and that by their propitiat on the desired object is attain d was nullifiei and he tertified that Man is the architect of his own forture 1 nis theory was propounded in clear and unequivocal terms to the public,
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