Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
rāgādinamaruppā ahimsagattam tti desidam samaye tesim ce uppatti himsetti jinehi niddittha175
The genesis of attachment, etc, in the soul is violence and their non-genesis is non-violence. Even Puruşārthasıdd śloka 44,176 states like this. Attachment, etc, are inclusive of all the twentyfive passions and hence are alike violence.177
Violence may be subjective or objective. The genesis of attachment, etc , is subjective violence and their application on some object like slaughter is objective violence Keeping both these in view Acarya Umaswami has defined non-violence as:
pramattayogāt prānavyaparopanam lumsā"78
The killing of self or another out of delusion is violence
The Jaina texts have discussed non-violence-violence in great details Specially interested reader should look up the appendix.
Non-violence is the highest religion; state of detachment is religion and absence of violence, etc, is detachment. The other four vows viz., truth, non-theft, celibacy and non-accumulation, definitely stands for detachment and hence are alike non-violence In contrast, falsehood, theft, sex and accumulation, being attachment-based are all alıke violence
ātniaparıņāmahimsanahetutvātsarrameva humsaitat anstavacanādıkevalamudāhrtam şişyabodhāya179
All these, untruth, theft, etc,, causing pain to the pure effort of souls, are in themselves violence These have been given different names for the under-standing of the disciples
In falsehood, theft, etc, there is an element of violence; and
175 Jainendra Siddhanta Kosa, Part I, p. 225 176 apradurbhavah khalu rāgadinām bhavaty ahimseti
te samevotpattırimseti jinagamasya sama sepah 177 Puru şarthasıddhyupaya, Sloka, 64 178 Tattvārtha Sutra, 7/13. 179 Purusärthasıddhyupaya, Sloka, 42