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JAIN : RELEVANCE OF NON-VIOLENCE IN MODERN LIFE
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Such a vigilant conduct avoids defilement of the soul by karmas or sins leading ultimately to freedom from bondage. Apart from future or life hereafter, practice of non-violence makes for a better existence in this life itself. It can ensure peace between nature and man, between man and man, between man and society, and between nation and nation. All the conflicts are solved through non-violent methods once its principles are put to practice at different levels.
Non-violence in the conduct of man and society or of the state is the greatest need in the present times. Faced with the danger of ecological disaster and nuclear holocaust on the one hand and unrestrained materialistic pursuit on the other, humanity is groping in the dark for a ray of light which can save its very existence. Such light is provided by shunning violence at all levels by practising nonviolence. No wonder Lord Mahāvīra called non-violence as goddess“Bhagavati Ahimsā".
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