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Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.
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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
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Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.
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A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha).
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
599 BC
Died:
527 BC
(aged 72)
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Mahāvīra, also known as Vardhamāna, was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara. In Jainism, a tirthankara is an omniscient teacher who preaches the dharma and builds a ford across the ocean of rebirth and transmigration.
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