Jeeva Karunya Nirupanam

Jeevakarunya Nirupanam by Chattampi Swami was first serialized in five issues of M N Nair Masika in 1936. Theerthapadasrmam published it in book form in 1978. We have only very few examples in modern times of the saints who have loved all living beings like himself. There is no other work that establishes scientifically and with the strength of logic the principle of non-violence. According to Swami violence has two characteristics. Giving pain as well as hindering one’s way to its happiness. Giving pain is seen only in living beings but hindering or delaying is there in living and nonliving things. The message contained in the book can be summed up like this. The world is built upon Non violence. If the animals are created for the use of man to kill and eat them, lion, tiger, panther etc should eat man and we have to agree that man is created to serve as their food. Animals like lion eat raw meat. It is natural for them. But humans eat food after cooking it by adding different spices. Hence it is to be considered that meat etc is not the natural food of man. In the time of creation each jiva accepts different bodies according to the characteristics contained in the basic nature (Mulaprakrithi).

All of them move towards the ultimate realization. In this systematic journey each living thing is a birth with (spuda) body. If we destroy these forms on any account before it reaches perfection and the soul gets itself separated by itself then they have to accept the same body. This is violence. In India Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism adheres to Non violence. The religion of Christ who has accepted the commandment ‘Do not Kill’ is against violence. Like this most of the religions of the world give due importance to non-violence and kindness.

Extract from: Chattampi Swami: An Intellectual Biography. By R. Raman Nair and L. Sulochana Devi. Trivandrum, Centre for South Indian Studies, 2010

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