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resentments give birth to mental tensions. These days our life is full of excitements, emotional disorders and mental tensions. The people and nations, materially more affluent, having all the amenities of life, are more in the grip to tensions. Medical as well as psychological, reports of advanced nations confirm this fact. This shows that the cause of our tensions is not scarcity of the objects of necessities, but the endless desires and the lust for worldly enjoyment. Among the most burning problems, the world is facing these days, the problem of mental tension is prime. We are living in tension all the time and are deprived of, even a pleasant sound sleep. The single and most specific feature by which our age may be characterised is that of tensions.
The main object of Jainism is to emancipate man from his sufferings i.e. mental tensions and thus to attain equanimity or tranquility. First of all, we must know the cause of these mental tensions. For Jainism the basic human sufferings are not physical, but mental. These mental sufferings or tensions are due to our attachment towards worldly objects. It is the attachment, which is fully respon.. sible for them. The famous Jaina text Uttarādhyayanasūtra mentions : "The root of all suffering, physical as well as mental, of every body including gods, is attachment, which is the root cause of mental tensions. Only a deta.. ched attitude towards the objects of worldly enjoyment can free mankind from mental tension.
According to Lord Mahavira, to remain attached tosensuous objects is to remain in the whirl, Says he :: Misery is gone in the case of a man who has no delusion; while delusion is gone, in the case of a man who has no. desire; desire is gone in the case of a man who has po greed; while greed is gone in the case of a man who has no attachment."2 The efforts made to satisfy the human desires through material objects can be likened to the chopping off of the branches while watering the roots. He: further remarks that uncountable mountains of gold and
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| SR No. | 524578 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1994 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Parmeshwar Solanki |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1994 |
| Total Pages | 186 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 8 MB |