Ten Commandments of Tirthankar Mahavir

1. All living beings long to live.
2. Live and let live. Love all – serve all.
3. Where there is love there is life.
4. All Souls are alike and potentially divine, none is superior or inferior.
5. Have compassion towards all living beings; hatred leads to destruction.
6. As I dislike pain, so do all other beings dislike pain.
7. A person need not kill, nor cause others to kill, nor consent to killing by others.
8. Silence and self-control amount to non-violence.
9. Respect for all living beings is non-violence.
10. Non-violence is the supreme religion.