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allows love to flourish and corroded by resentment and complains. Annoyance kills happiness, Resentment in the form of comments, scorn, lack of support of sense of someone had been ripped off will never make our hearts more open. Realise preciousness of life we cant change other's action or thoughts of people what happened in past what we can change is ourselves becoming forgiving helps change focus from our wounds to the present and future happiness so accept, acknowledge and heal.
Earth is a bright jewel in enormously vast cosmos. It is live planet endowed with marvellous variety forms of life and with atmosphere of fertile soil, forest, water and oceans. Humans are linked with other living being and forces of nature in a divine web of interdependence. The universe belongs to all of us in equal measure as such as plants and animals as it does to human community. This marvellour heritage can be preserved by global commit of non-violence. It is time to bid farewell to violence. Which threatens to terrorize us all.
Gandhi wrote, “No religion of the world has explained the principle of non-violence as deeply and systematically in its applicability to life as Jainism”.
Archaranga Sutra, “He who ignores or negates other beings ignores or negates one's own self. He who wish to inflict suffering is eventually yourself you can't kill or harm others without hurting yourself.”
Awareness of non-violence is increasing for universal sustaiability and co-existence.
Animal Violence - Millions of animals are undergoing experiments which are cruel and risk their life or longevity only for testing household products for human beings every year more than 14 millions animals. Suffer and die in painful tests in attempt to determine safety of cosmetics and household products such as toothpaste, lipstick, dish-washing liquid and furniture polish are tested on animals such as dogs rabbits. Every time company changes its ingredients or advertises new or improved product substance is retested. Two of most common methods of testing are Draize eye irritancy test and lethal dose 50 or D50 test. Draize test is used to test substance that might get into human eye. During this test certain amount of concentrated solution is placed into eyes of conscious albino rabbits. Their eyes are held open with clips and many rabbits breaks their necks and backs, as they struggle to escape. The damage to the rabbits eyes is then recorded at intervals over a period of several days. Reactions to the irritants, include swelling of the eye lid, inflammation of iris, ulceration, bleeding and blindness. They usually receive no anesthesia or pain relieving drugs during the tests. D50 test measures the amount
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