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THE FRAMEWORK
The concept of cause and effect has found place in almost all philosophies. In some way or the other, every religion has generalized that good or evil action results in good or evil consequences. But, probably, Jain thinkers were the only to develop a science out of this concept, making Ahimsa the fundamental factor enveloping every activity in the conscious life.
In order to follow the path of Ahimsa, one has to first understand violence and how it functions. After defining violence and non-violence (Ahimsa) in simple terms the Jain philosophers went deeper and explained the framework of violence in details.
Space, the first fundamental is the arena of all activity. Life and matter are the objects involved in activity. Moveinent and inertia are the forces responsible for activity. And time is the factor measuring the sequences of every activity between two fixed points of reference.
All these appear to be simple and grossly conceivable things but the principles governing the existence and activity have been evolved at much subtler levels, which do not
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