Ahimsa Mimansa

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

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leaves etc. It is scientifically proved that when a tree is cut with an axe cruelly then the blood vessels of next tree are contracted. While the (Manav) human mind is more sensitive and therefore, it is more significant for them.
There is a comedy tale. A prince of the king Indrasen of Indrapur town, was sent for study at the hermitage. Then a king requested the Rushi, "Humble Brahman ! my prince is very small, he is my beloved one. If he makes mistakes please do not slap him, but slap the next one so he would understand every thing and he would not make mistakes later on. This story may be good from sensitive point of view. APARIGRAHA AND ANEKANT ARE THE NOURISHERS
OF NON-VIOLENCE
Jain philosophy has minutely observed Parigraha. Possessions As soon as attachment and intension of possessiveness as well as sensual pleasures are mixed with parigraha, then it becomes sin and guilt.
The lifestyle of sensual pleasures instead of renunciation, the discords are on increase among families. Two states of a nation quarrel for the land points of high sea level oilfields. Dispute for the distribution of water of the rivers the Kaveri and the Narmada, international fighting for oil, the man kind has become blood thirsty through fatal weapons such as dagger to bomb.
As if the quarrels, for water and land gifted from the nature, are less in numbers, a front is being established for space laboratory and station in the space. This war field has spread out to cosmic world, starting from family to universe.
Mahatma Gandhi had said "When you renounce whatever you possess, then you become the master of the properties of the whole world.”
Ideology of socialism can only be settled when the religious observance of Aparigraha is put into action faithfully.