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A. : Arre! If you could attain salvation by following other
religions it will definitely not stop by our refusal. The
point is that, if salvation is possible in the presence of
minute sinful acts, then any religion can help you attain
it. If it is not possible, then you can search the entire
world for a religion except Jainism where the approval
of the violence of small one-sensed living organisms is
also considered a sin. Which religion shows a method
to forsake these sins ? If there is such a religion, then
we do not deny the possibility of salvation by following
that religion ?

But the marked truth is that others do not even know
that such one-sensed living creatures exist. They do
not know that they also have a soul like ours. Then
how can they even make the efforts to save them ? The
knowledge related to one-sensed, two-sensed, three-
sensed, four-sensed and five-sensed (i.e. Ekindriya,
Beindriya, Teindriya, Chauindriya and Panchindriya)

living beings and their classification is a speciality of
Jainism. No other religion can stand against it because
such deep knowledge related to living creatures does not
prevail anywhere else.

Why did Indrabhuti get attracted to the Jain ascetic life ?
All the other Brahmin scholars including Indrabhuti left their

Yagna and Vedas and accepted the shelter of Lord Mahavira.
They realized that their religion of performing Yagnas was
absolutely futile because, till you do not leave the sinful act of
the violence of minute one-sensed living organisms, approval
to violence and non-restraint of sinful acts, how is Moksha
(salvation) possible ? How can any religion bring you closer
to salvation ?

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