Ahimsa Mimansa

Author(s): Kanubhai Sheth, Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: SKPG Jain Philosophical and Literary Research Centre

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cide. There are various forms of suicide acts, they are, to die with bullet fird from revolver and gun, to take orally poisonous medicines, to lie down over railway track, to fall in the well or sea as well as to jump from top of the mountain or high rise building. Suicide is cowardice act. Cowardice and fear are the causes of decline. Cowardice produced by violence, Cowardice produces fear. Fear creates defeats. Defeat produces anger. Violence therefore is the cause of decline. MENTAL VIOLENCE:
There is co-relation between life, society and the nation. At all these three levels, human gives concrete touch to his own various feelings. As seen above, anger is produced by Violence. As a result of this social stability is disturbed and broken and the diseases like high-low casteism, touchabilitynon-touchability are developed. The lowest caste such as schedule caste and tribe, while given acceptance and behave cruelly with them, that is also a form of mental violence.
Though all the animals are treated as equal by nature and consider the children of the God, an artificial divisions such as high-low casteism, rich-poor, king-pauper are created, as a result of these, the classes like master-servant, employer-employee etc. came into existance, and later on the system of slaveslavery came into existance. Rich and wealthy persons were buying slaves. And those poor, weak slaves were the subject of inhumane terrorism and treatement. More laborious bodily work, than the animals were taken from them, at the same time they were offered lowest and non-nutrituous quality of foods. He, one who gets the work done at lesser reward, was considered to be clever and skillful. The slaves were exploited in many ways, such as, laborious body work to the maximum extent, less reward, to keep hungry and thirsty and cruelly assault. These can be termed as mental violence too.