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Tre essay on Ahimsa Ideology and Family Planning written by him is really the work of the great intelligence. The country is facing the problems of rising prices now-a-days. He has correlated Ahimsa Ideology with family planning. He has laid great emphasis not on the birth control but on the self-control. The increasing number of population can only be checked by the self control. This check on the increasing number of the population is necessary to observe the goal of the Fire-Year Plans He also lays great emphasis on the chastity of the soul, body and heart which has been discussed at great Izngth by Mahatma Gandhi. I
Being based upon reason and scientific method, Abimsa ideology naturally relies on Planning as a proper procedure in all human activities Planning implies a conscious attempt to work out adequate means to reach desired ends.
In regard to the size of the population, for instance, the Government of a country may at any time follow a deliberate policy of population control; but in the case of individual men and women also, it is the view of Ahimsa thinkers that a Policy of family planning is inescapably required. Family planning involves the estimating of income and expenditure for husband, wife and children for a year or more in advance, and it also involves the wellbeing of the family for many years into the future. Among other things, this involves the planning of the size of the family.
More than other law-givers, Ahimsa philosophers have laid insistent emphasis upon two things in particular. First, that married persons must understand that the begetting of progeny imposes a fundamental and inescapable responsibility upon the parents not merely for its proper feeding, its bringing up, its education. but also for helping it to develop into useful citizens of the community who may be capable of contributing to the common well-being. Secondly, that married persons must always try to consciously regulate the number of their progeny by voluntary moral restraint. In respect of the first thing. Ahimsa thinkers feel that it would be justified for State authority to take
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| SR No. | 010058 |
| Book Title | Tansukhrai Jain Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jainendrakumar, Others |
| Publisher | Tansukhrai Smrutigranth Samiti Dellhi |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 489 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Smruti_Granth |
| File Size | 16 MB |