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growth may emerge. With resultant greater mobility, religious and cultural diversity would increase. This will require greater tolerance and understanding among people in the spirit of respect of diversity, tolerance, coexistence and non-violence.
In his paper on "Jainism and Business Ethics", Dr. Sheth has said that Jaina teaching of Samyak Caritra (Right conduct) as very relevant for business ethics as well as the increasing need of tolerance in the context of diversity of work force and markets, increasing violence, institutional aleination and vigilance needed for law and order.
Jainism can provide input in the sphere of increasing need for empowerment through sefety and security, love and affection, self-esteem and independence as well as effort at continuous self-improvement. All this benefits business and develops the right ethics with distinct benefits in terms of better productivity, harmony and better shareholder value.
Mr. Nalini Balbir took the subject of "Past and present of a Jain festivals and read a paper on Akşay Trtīyā celebrations connected with the fast-breaking of Lord Rşabhadeva as the centre piece. She traced how the festival has been celebrated since the 10th century until today and its motivating significance as recorded in Jaina literature. She has done a lot of valuable research work in this field as was clear from the detailed presentation.
Ms. Irena Upanicks spoke on "Non-violence and our daily food", with great feeling, senstivity, argument and emotion on the need of practising vegetarianism as a way of practising non-violence. She maintained that cruelty and violence begins with the plate on our table. First we should become vegetarians before we begin to talk or preach about love, peace and non-violence.
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