Mahavira on Jainism

“Jainism: In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.”

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

“Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.”

“I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and possessed of an infinite knowledge. Whether I am walking or standing still, whether I sleep or remain awake, the supreme knowledge and intuition, are present with me---constantly and continuously. There are, O Nirgranthas, some sinful acts, you have done in the past, which you must now wear out, by this acute form of austerity. Now that here you will be living restrained, in regard to your acts, speech and thought, it will work as the nondoing of karma for future. Thus, by the exhaustion of the force of past deeds, through penance and the non-accumulation of new acts,(you are assured) of the stoppage of the future course, of rebirth from such stoppage, of the destruction of the effect of karma, from that, of the destruction of pain, from that, of the destruction of mental feelings, and from that, of the complete wearing out of all kinds of pain.”