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command ultimately met a compulsive doom. The mighty beings that have mastered their senses and freed themselves of the demon of desire are salts of earth. Glory is to them. Such pious beings surmount the ordinarily insurmountable oceanic world in a jiffy. Indulgent beings have only one destinythat of in terminally plodding on the odyssey of mundane sufferings”. (35/ 20 and 22 and 28/ 9, 10, 18, 19).
Secondly, owing to tremendous advancement in science and technology, we have light legged means of transportation; physical distances have no bars to meet the people of different nations, cultures and religions. Nowadays world is shrinking, but unfortunately distances of our hearts is increasing day by day unluckily and disdainfully. Instead of developing mutual love, faith and co-operation, we are spreading hatred and hostility, while Rishibhāshit always maintain that the advancement in our scientific knowledge has removed our religious superstitions and false dogmas, but unfortunately side by side it has also shakened our mutual faith and faith in higher values of life. The old social and spiritual values of life, acting as binding force on humanity and based and our religious beliefs has been made irrelevant by the scientific and logical out look. Today we strongly rely on the atomic power as our true rescuer which is in no way our true rescuer but destroyer. We know much more about atom and atomic power than the values needed for a peaceful and meaningful life. Rishibhāshit maintains that it is concept of non-violence, which can be a true rescuer of human race. In Rishibhāshit it is said that “Living beings should offer food to other living beings to grant them a secure existence and freedom from misery. As we experience distress due to injury, burn, irritation and pain, so do other organisms. All beings dislike death and injury. They cherish kindness. Keeping this in view, the aspirant should shun violence and killing. Non-violence consoles and reassures every body. Non-violence is like the immanent God in all beings". (45/ 17-20)
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