Mahavira Life and Philosophy

SR No.: 011030
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sumeruchand Diwakar Shastri
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 200
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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harmony. The Ilustrated weekly of India (6 may 1956) reports, Abort hair of the people in the United States of Amerior rutier fxom sleepleisners", In America the incidence of diabetes is increasing. More than seven million Americans have arthritis. One of ten, supposed healthy, has a stomach ulcer. Britons suffer in general from obosity and wretched dental conditions".
These observations are worthy of our attention, "With 4,20,000 persons in mental hospitals in the United States with the incidence of insanity directly affecting 4% of the population and with an estimated 10% of the population definitely neurotic, to say nothing of the emotionally unstable, the criminal class, boboes and prostitutos, no one can hope to escape coining directly or indirectly into contact with problems of mental abnormality". (V. E. Fisher, An Introduction to Abnormal Psychology, the Macmillan Co New York 1949, p,2).
It is noteworthy that "The divorce rate has risen most rapidly in the more progressive states (U. S. A.), where the general level of intelligence is highest.". (Durant Droke in The New Morality).
In the West drinking is a very common thing, As a man cannot live without drinking water, in the like manner drinking of wine has become essential. This is causing indescribable barm to humanity. The following words need special attention, "At a mecting of the Police Inspectory in New York, when the subject under discussion was the cause of crime, one experienced Inspector gave it as his judgment which seemed to be generally concurred in that drink was the biggest single cause of crime."
The aforesaid material makes it crystal clear that the materially advanced countries are really unhealthy and sick internally. This truth must be borne in mind that material achievements shorn of spiritual element in fact make us