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NEW IDEOLOGIES NEW TRADITIONS
11 Mental control,
12 Verbal control,
13 Oral control
There were two obvious advantages of this code:The laxity observed amongst the disciples of Lord Parshwa was checked
2 The inner elements that conduced to this laxity were held in check
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Lord Mahavira denounced those traits of the monks, householders and Vedic monks that went against the grain of the time-honoured principle of non-violence The Lord, thus, proved to be a saviour of all the three systems
Some of the scholars like to ascribe to Lord Mahavira the pioneering role of revolutionising the religious practices of sacrificial and other rites and propounding Jainism Facts slightly vary from this view Indeed, the Lord was born in the shramana tradition The light of this star shone untrammelled by traditions The tradition, indeed, borrowed light from this star The question of his granting sanction or otherwise to the Vedas and Brahminism is wide off the mark as the shramana tradition had already derecognized these Shramana and Vedic schools rose independently in India Both were sister schools rather than either giving birth to the other
Lord Mahavira sought to effect a reconciliation He desired a patching up of the Brahmin-Ksatriya animosity of a long standing He did give a preferential treatment to the Brahmins not as a caste but as individuals He had no bias in favour of a particular caste
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THE CLARION-CALL OF REVOLUTION.
Like light and darkness, the true and the false have lasted here since the beginning of the creation There is no age embodying either light or darkness exclusively Even today the forces of light are extant and even during Mahavira's days the dark forces existed The Lord was instrumental in emitting
