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imported beef tallow (the latter being very cheap). He mixed the beef tallow with the edible oils and sold this product as pure vanaspati ghee, thus making millions of non-suspecting vegetarians non-vegetarians. I don't know if
he was ever reprimanded by the Jain community. O Many Jain owners of patrol pumps and sellers of medicines
(chemist shops) in India frequently indulge in selling adulterated and spurious products and also engage in not
dispensing the proper quantity, weight, or volume. o I have read and been told that a few Jain temples in India
might have been built now and in the past with loot and ill gotten wealth. I guess money has no color and all is fair
when it comes to accepting donations. Now you decide, is this behavior consistent with ahimsa?
CAPITALISM, ECONOMIC MELTDOWNS, SWINDLING, AND MANIPULATION ARE THE BOON OF THE WEST IN THE 21ST CENTURY I have lived in the West for the last forty-Eight plus years and for a long time, I thought that the West had very high moralistic and ethical values, but recently I have come to the conclusion that no national, ethnic, or religious group has a monopoly on ethics. There are bad apples everywhere. The recent economic meltdowns and examples of swindling, cheating, sky-high greed, and bonuses, and the twisting and distorting of truth by the so-called rich and famous in the West, and particularly in the US, leads me to believe that people are same everywhere and there is no less corruption (in fact it is many times more) in the USA than in any country of the world. In India, the corruption is practically at every level of society but it is modest whereas in the US it is of monumental proportion and is done by the rich and super rich, the famous, powerful, educated and religious (but not moral) people. Examples include: ENRON, Bernie Madoff, Sanford, Bankers, Wall Street tycoons and bandits, insurance company 244
An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide
