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confident control over nature. But we have lost the man. Man knows his place in this huge world. He feels--
We are like sands upon the shore A little wave and we are no more.
A person blessed with this wisdom tries his best to adopt a pure and pious course of life. This way of life may be achieved by practising ahimsa in every field of life. Ahimsā is meant for men and women of all positions. In brief this is the primary precept of non-violence that do your duty and do it as humanly and carefully as you can. Keep your heart and mind pure and unsullied, no violent act originates in a kind or pure heart and mind.
Rule of non-violence has founded on basic human values such as love and kindness. This rule of ahimsa is not only eternal and universal, but realistic too. Truth, honesty, charity, tolerance, forbearance and other human virtues are only the corollaries flowing naturally by extending this fundamental rule of non-violence cum love to various walks of life. So even in this scientifically advanced age, this rule, if followed both in letter and spirit, would facilitate the establishment of peace and happiness in the whole world as one unit. His microscopic personality of ahimsā can only be perceived by diffusion of oneself with an entire uprooting of ego, attachment, jealousy, etc. This mental and physical nonviolence as advocated by Jainism is a clue to many complicated problems arising out of modernity.
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