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SHRAMAN IDAHAVIR
Mahavira who has commented on the absolute freedom that good-will is synonimous with There nesthor detainer can exist nor the detenue What kind of forgiveness do you grant me or expect of me in this context, sire ?'
Udrayana realised his fallacious thinking He released him and thus bound him in a fresh link of friendship
The Lord laid down three conditions of disarmament: 1 Non-trading in arms 2 Non-distribution of arms 3 Non-proliferation of arms
Warfare hails from ambition or anger It estranges man from man As the feeling of ill-will envelopes the heart, the inner fountains of good-will are dried up The heart is shrivelled up in such polluted environs The mind becomes a parched up thing Man finds himself as cruel and barbarous It is a malady with an ancient lineage
The sole remedy available for it is a cultivation of equantmity and good-will for all Lord Mahavira was a pioneer of this psychological remedy His doctrine of non-invasion is as relevant in today's context, representing the tender and sweet emotions of man
10 The Clarion-call of Non-acquisition.
Where there is body there is hunger. Every organism has to procure food to satisfy its hunger Lower organism crawl about and consume food particle as and when they come across it They are incapable of storing it Certain other species can store some quantity of food Man is a highly-evolved organism Ho is endowed with the memory of the past experiences and can anticipate the coming events It leads him to acquire ana store for himself.
So long as man stayed in his primaeval jungle existence he stored food for his own consumption only Socialisation
1 'Uttaradhyayan, Sukhbodha', leaf 254
