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Conflict Removing Vision of Jainism
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restrict bribery and deceptive practices in the economic world.
Control over sexual practices can increase mental and spiritual power, can overcome sexual corruption and can overcome diseases like AIDS.
Most of the conflicts arise in the society due to money, land, properties, power etc. The fifth vow puts limits to the desires of a man or woman for possessing more and more things. It weakens or dissolves the greed towards acquisition of worldly things. If we do not want to suffer from tension, depression or bodily diseases, then we must avoid extreme ambition for possession of materialistic goals.
Vision with Theory Of Karma
In the view of Jaina Karma theory, a person gets result of his own deeds. The concepts of pleasure giving (sātāvedaniya) karma and grief or pain giving (asātā vedaniya) karma instruct the society in a right path that if you do good to others it will result in good to you and if you do bad to others it will bear bad consequences to you. The causes of these sātā and asātā vedanīya karmas have been mentioned in Tattvärtha Sutra as follows:
"If a soul causes pain, grief, agony, cry, injury or lamenting to others then it attracts asātāvedaniya or pain karma, and if a soul generates compassion through charity to all living beings as well as to those observing religious vows, then it is a cause of sātāvedaniya or pleasure karma."9
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Tattvärthasutra 6.12-13:
dukhaḥ-śoka-tāpākrandana-vadha-paridevanānyātma-parobhayāsthānyasad-vedyasya. bhūtavratanukampādānam sarāgasamyamädiyogaḥ kṣāntiḥ śaucamiti sadvedyasya. *
