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The Practice of Non-violence in Muticultural Perspective
was left was a kind of rational human soul while everything else became mechanical. Nevertheless, mechanists keep reinventing the soul in a miniaturized form replacing it either inside the germ plasm, or more recently inside the 'selfish' genes which are endowed with all the properties of life and mind."13 Only when plan and purpose are included it is possible to consider nature's enormous complexity.
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The subjectivity of a galaxy ...is that which organizes and sustains the galaxy. Subjectivity includes spontaneity, in a wriggling amoeba as well as in a human being, and sentience, in the self-regulating dynamics of a coral reef as well as in mammal. Through subjectivity, manifestations of the universe present the creative unfolding and ultimate mystery of the
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Therefore, to create a querencia is to invest life and the world with mystery, with the numinous quality that traditionally imbued every aspect of reality. It short, it means to reenchant the world by resolving the Western imposition of duality between objective nature and subjective reality.
This resacralized space is a place in which communion is valued because" ...every reality of the universe is intimately present to every other reality of the universe and finds its fulfillment in this mutual presence." "15 Communion, a third value, finds expression in the law of gravitation: physical beings both attract and are attracted by every other physical being. In the words of physicist Brian Swimme-
'The Sun and the Earth awake in a profound embrace of a bonded relationship we call gravitational interaction. With each passing instant this bond deepens so that in time Earth shapes itself into a form that can sing of the sun's energy. The chlorophyll molecules have the essence of the Sun in their very architecture; the vertebrate eye was shaped using the photonic patterns emanating from the Sun's fusion energetics....
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In the human mode Ahimsa becomes the instrument by which communion is realized. To practice non-violence is to shape one's relatedness to the world so that experessions of love and understanding become the primary defining moments in the lives of all other beings. Just
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| SR No. | 014010 |
| Book Title | Jainism in a Global Perspective - Collection of Jain papers of 1993 Parliament of World Religions, Chicago |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sagarmal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey |
| Publisher | Parshwanath Vidyapith |
| Publication Year | 1998 |
| Total Pages | 402 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Seminar & Articles |
| File Size | 23 MB |