Tulsi Prajna 1993 10

SR No.: 524577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 126
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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For this, we need methods and equipments which are: "(i) Cheap enough so that they are accessible to virtually everyone: (ii) Suitable for small-scale application; (iii) Compatible with man's need for creativity." The application of it will provide the unemployed an opportunity to engage themselves in productive activities. This will be lesser hazardous to the environment too. Shumacher formulated the first law of economics as follows: "The amount of real leisure a society enjoys tends to be in inverse proportion to the amount of labour saving machinery it employs".8 Capital-intensive technology is inherently violent, dangerous to environment, self-deafiting in terms of non-renewable resources and stultifying for human-being. The use of appropriate technology is more compatible with the laws of ecology; gentle in its use of scarce resources and designed to serve the human-person instead of making him the servant of machines.
In order to introduce human values in economics, Yuvacharya Sri Mahaprajña, the disciple of Acharya Sri Tulsi suggests that, "The fundamentals of our economic policy should be based on health, education, mental peace and purity of life." He pleads for a non-violent model of economic development which according to him, "Will consist of the ideas of purity of means voluntary ceiling on private property, limitations on consumption, distribution of the produced material and strict control over the prodution of luxuries and their import."10
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Alvin Tofler rightly comments, "We should evolve a system that eliminates wastes and pollution by making sure that the output and by-product of each industry becomes an input for the next. The goal is a system under which no output is produced that is not an input for another production process down-stream. Such a system is not only more efficient in a production sense, it minimises or indeed eliminates damage to the biosphere."11
If we succeed in evolving such an economic system which work in harmony with the laws of nature and morality, then and then only we can claim to live in a civilised society.
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