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Do we have any right to destroy this beautiful universe which not we but Nature or God had created as it is said? How can we do away with lives, which do not belong to us?
MOKSHAMARGASYA NETARAM, BHETARAM KARMA BHRUBHRUTYE GYATARAM VISHWATATWANAM VANDE TADGUNA LABDHYE
ADIMAM PRITHVI NATHAM, ADIMAM NISPARIGRIHAM ADIMAM TEERTHANATHAM CHA, RISHABHA SWAMINAM STUMAHA
BUDDHA-STAVAMEVA VIBUDHARCHITA-BUDDHIBODHAT TVAM SHANKAROSI BHUVANA-TRAYA-SHANKARA-TVAT DNATASI DHIRA! SHIVA-MARGA-VIDHER-VIDHANAT VYAKTAM TVAMEVA BHAGAVAN! PURUSHOTTAMOSI
WHAT A TERRIFIC AGE OF GIANT ABATTOIRS?
PRIMITIVE AGE OF ADINATHA RISHABHADEVA THE FOUNDER FATHER OF HUMAN CIVILISATION AND CHAKRAVARTI BHARATA'S RISHABHANUSHASAN
Adinatha Rishabhadeva, the Founder Forefather of Human Civilisation & Culture on Earth, the first Jain Tirthankara of this cycle of time, the Adi Manu, Adi Buddha, Adi Human Baba Adam, who had been accepted and adopted by all the religions of world in different names & forms, had an unusual, wonderful vision of the human being rising to the supreme height of universal consciousness & soulsublimation. How the primitive human, how the child-crawling humanity could be elevated to those unprecedented heights was planned & prescribed by him in this vision, the extensively encompassing super-disciplined way of life, the RISHABHANUSHASANA.
In this visionary planning of enlightened & awakened human life, a total, complete, integrated & exclusive picture of humanity scaling the extreme heights of perfection was drawn by him. ASI (weaponry), MASI (script-writing) & KRISHI (agriculture) were the three factors and founding pillars of this, from which followed & expanded all the requisite human arts & life sciences, numbering 72 for men & 64 for women KALPASUTRA (Acharya Bhadrabahu). Leaving aside here the description of all these life uplifting, life disciplining subjects and faculties, we shall try to have a glance only on their basis. This is KRISHI (agriculture), centre point of which is VRISHABHA, the Bull. The Bull wonderfully symbolises his own name RISHABHA and represents his identity by being is LANCHHANA (the
