Peace Religious Harmony and Solution of World Problems from Jaina Prespective

SR No.: 001657
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 70
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Social
File Size: 4 MB

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Secondly, owing to tremendous advancement in science and technology, we have light legged means of transportation, physical distences have no bars to meet the people of different nations, cultures and religions. Now a days world is shrinking, but unfortunately distences of our hearts is increasing day by day unluckily and disdainfully. Instead of developing mutual love, faith and co-operation, we are spreading hatred and hostility, while Jaina Acaryas always maintain that our essential nature is co-operative.
Thirdly, the advancement in our scientific knowledge has removed our religious superstitions and false dogmas, but unfortunately side by side it has also shakened our mutual faith and faith in higher values of life. The old social and spiritual values of life, acting as binding force on humanity and based an our religious beliefs has been made irrelevant by the scientific and logical out look. Today we strangly rely on the atomic power as our true rescuer which is in no way our true recuer but destroye. We know much more about atom and atomic power than the values needed for a peaceful and meaningful life.
The advencement in all the walks of life and knowledge could not sublimate our animal nature, the animal instincts and passions lying with in us is still more dominating our individual and social behaviour. Owing to scientific advancement our suceess has made us more greedy. We remain all the time greedy and self-centered. Science and technology provided us atomic weapons for our safty, but remain unable to provide a sense of security. Though these arms and weapons are considered as means of security, yet instead of giving security generate fear and thus sense of insecurity in the opposite party which causes a mad race of weapons. Lord Mahavira had seen this truth centuries before that there is no end of this mad race of weapons. He declared that there are number of weapons superior to each othere, but nothing is superior than nonviolence.
One thing which I want to clear you that science is neither good nor bad but it is use of scientifice knowladge and technology which makes it good or bad.
Thus in this age of science and technology we need the nonviolence as a only alternative for the survival of mankind.