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Chapter - 6 Jainism and Democracy
Cosmic Democracy :
When in my book Path of Arhat I described Jainism as a "religious democracy," some of my friends told me that religion and the secular concept of democracy cannot go together. This view arise out of the belief that the concept of democracy is limited to the political field. That is not correct. The concept of democracy is comprehensive enough to cover all situations where all individual units covered by it are treated on equal footing and have the liberty to expand and progress in their own way.
Being a way of life, Jainism looks at the universe
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