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Aptavani-2
Evolution as exposed by Lord Mahavir
The worldly life is constantly evolving (samsaran marg).
The scenery changes at every mile, at every furlong. Human
beings suffer because they become engrossed and entangled in
the scenery. Evolution of all living beings, except human beings,
in the entire universe is a naturally flowing process. Only for
human beings it is not natural and there is suffering in it. These
crows, pigeons, fish etc., do not have any hospitals nor do they
have to take a bath everyday, do they? Yet, they look so clean
and beautiful! Do they have to accumulate or hoard anything?
They are considered ashrit; having dependency on God or
nature, whereas human beings are the only living beings who are
nirashrit i.e. they do not have any dependency on natural
forces. Every human being is without dependency, whether it is
a monk, an ascetic or even the one who renounces the world.
Any living being that has even the slightest of worry about, ‘what
is to become of me?’ is without dependency and support. Those
who do not take support of God or natural forces and hoard
things are all non-dependant (nirashrit) and that is why they
have worries and anxieties.
One has wandered in the worldly life for countless lives.
No living being likes being in bondage; they all have a desire to
be free but what can they do if they cannot find the path of
liberation? Besides in which life has one not been an ascetic?
Whether one is born a Vaishnav or a Jain, one becomes an
ascetic, gets tired of being one and thinks about how nice it
would be to be a family man. Then in his next life he becomes
a married man with a family, but gets tired of that life so he
begins to wish he could be an ascetic and so he becomes an