Jain
religion is based on three principles. Non-corrupt life, not to amass
wealth and nonviolence. In Indian languages they are mentioned as
अस्तेय,
अपरिग्रह,
अहिंसा.
However, when we see the life style and style of working it becomes
obvious that they do not actually practice any of these principles.
Most Jains are in business and while doing that they do profiteering,
black marketing, over billing, bribing, not keeping promises given
while selling goods, hoarding, making black money by not paying
income tax are some of the things they indulge and by that prove that
they do not practice 'non-corrupt'
principle.
We
know this Jain community amasses enormous amount of wealth and by
that create imbalance in economy of the country. They talk of their
wealth and boastfully parade it. This behavior is clear violation of
second principle of 'not to amass
wealth'.
Third
principle is nonviolence. Nonviolence means to live in such a way
that you do not 'hurt' anybody. This principle covers even the
individual himself. That means not to hurt oneself too. Here hurt
refers to mental, physical and moral rights. Interesting part in that
is that in none of the scriptures of Jain religion there is mention
of killing. However, it is presumed that killing involves hurting
(physical). Adding killing in this clause is only by derived meaning
and not by original meaning. Another interesting compromise we see is
that Jains do not mind consuming milk. Actually when we use milk we
do hurt the moral right of calves. They kill calves and tie it in
front of cow while taking milk from that cow. Jains have no objection
to it. On the other hand they are opposed to eating eggs. Infertile
egg is available without hurting the hen who throws it away because
that egg is not required by anybody since there is no life in it.
Such eggs for a hen are like monthly discharge of a woman. Hen throws
out an egg every day or so, (woman has it monthly) since it is not
fertilized. That means, an infertile egg is more nonviolent food than
milk. By eating it no hurting is involved. As for other matters of
'hurt', I admit that in most places they are well behaved and do not
indulge in insulting other people. That means by my understanding out
of these three basic principles only third principle 'hurting', Jains
practice to some extent but not completely whereas first two they
never practice at all. Today we see that Jainism is reduced to eating
vegan food. It is an excellent example of hypocrisy at all levels.
There
are other discrepancies in Jain thought. I am referring to Santhara
practice, for which Jains have made a prestige issue and are fighting
at SC. Rajasthan HC had banned this practice and it was very proper
since it amounts to giving permission for death by choice. Presently
that is not allowed in our country and therefore, to allow Santhara
is not acceptable. Rajasthan Court compared it with Sati practice and
it was true that Santhara is as bad as Sati that was forcible banned
by British in the nineteenth century. In many Jain households old
women are kept without food and made to die, calling it Santhara and
by that try to gain some publicity and fame in that community.
Actually, these are cases of murder and since these helpless old
women are not in position to ask for food and even if they ask for it
household members do not give it to them and make them die without
food. This is one very condemnable practice this religion is
encouraging. We see that who die as Santhara are all women and not
men. That is one more reason why we should consider it as blasphemy
in the name of religion. If a religion encourages such killing and at
the same time talk of nonviolence (अहिंसा)
it clearly shows that it is a case of hypocrisy. Jains cannot justify
all these dirty practices and at the same time claim to be a very
civilized society. Eating vegan food is not all nonviolence, they
should learn about what is real nonviolence. Worst
part is that they have made settings with our SC and by that brought
about injunction on Rajasthan Court order; this shows the corrupt
mind of these Jain.
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