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be the temperment that seeks ment. Men will practise the phrase "Live and let live" in reality and truth
exploitation and self-aggrandisegolden rule summed up in the
(3) Excessive industrialisation will be checked under ahimsa. We are all eager to become Manufacturers to-day. Under the guidance of ahimsa, life will be simplified; manufactures will be limited; and mechanization will be restricted. Every Nation will be self-supporting, and self-dependent, growing its own foods
At the present rate of " progress", the day is in sight when everywhere there will be manufacturers and producers, but no-where buyers! Reduction in the number of factories wil at once strike at the root of un-employment, since they render idle more men than they employ It is a bad policy to £tarve many to fill the pockets of a few.
4. The Doctrine of Love will also induce legislators to find means of suitably dealing with the problem of excess of women over men, which in its turn, will also go to reduce unemployment, and along with the check on excessive industria lization will root it cut altogether i might mention in this
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connection that, for those countries where the number of men is smaller that of women, ahiņā (love) favours the marrying of two women to one may The advantage from this will be manifold; social life will be purified, and girls will not be under the temptation of employing uam ral, and even immoral devices to "catch" bu bands. Those who cannot get married under monogamous law, and who are driven for no fault of theirs except that they happen to endowed with the animal appetites like their married brethren and sisters, to seek clandestine amour. will no longer be forced to a lite of hypocrisy, and shame. Abortions will not be practised as they are in thou-ants to day; and infanticide will become a thing of the past. These are only a few of the advantages that will flow from the practice. The opposi tion to it is merely a matter of zid (sentiment; many women who find themselves unable to be reconciled to the idea of sharing their husbands with another woman, in reality are actu
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| SR No. | 008002 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 1 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker |
| Publisher | Parimal Publication |
| Publication Year | 1989 |
| Total Pages | 623 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion |
| File Size | 14 MB |