Sramana 2016 01

SR No.: 525095
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shreeprakash Pandey, Rahulkumar Singh, Omprakash Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2016
Total Pages: 114
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 14 MB

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CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN JAINA PHILOSOPHY: 55 planet in a little corner of the universe, and that we know, other parts of the cosmos may contain beings superior to ourselves as we are to jelly fish.
In this context, Right to equality and non discrimination Act of 14, 15, 16 Article of Human Rights also claims the rights of equality of all the human beings without considering above mentioned discrimination. Mahāvīra rightly said that man is brahmin, , ksatriya, vaisya and sūdra not by one's birth, but by one's action. He abolished the prevailing concept of considering one person as high or low on the basis of one's birth 'no hine no airitte" and he initiated Harikeśabala' an outcaste into his religious order. He allowed to read and study the scriptures to śūdras, which was prohibited in Vedic culture and religious society. During Gandhian period our history witnessed the sūdras are considered as untouchables and they were prohibited to enter into temples, their children's were not allowed to admit in certain schools, they were not allowed to touch the water pot and even touch the brahmins. If any sūdra violated this, he will be punished severely. The novel-'untouchable' written by R.K. Narayan highlights the social behaviour with śūdras. In this novel, he writes 'They clean our dirt so they are untouchable, if it is so then each one of us are untouchable as we also clean our own dirt. Such an open-mindedness in thought is the need of the hour'. Colour Discrimination
The central philosophy of Western Post-modern philosopher Richard Rorty is achievement of Human solidarity i.e. to consider the other person not like external, outsider or “foreigner, but as one of the member among us. Rorty has given five examples how it threatened the human relationship. During II'd world war by Nazis led by Hitler claimed that only Germans have pure blue blood. All the rest are like animals, so let us kill and make the world of human. Due to this one-dimensional perspective lacs of Jews were killed in concentration camp.