Ahimsa and Jainism

Author(s): Vijayvallabhsuri
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi

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as basic principles to adjust human relations on a stable footing. The human race, as a whole, will have to come round to democracy, international co-operation, adjudication of disputes through peaceful means and outlawing war to attain perpetual peace. These results cannot be achieved easily unless the basic values are unexceptionally sound The principle of Ahimsa enables us to value man as man, and is capable of serving as the basis of human relationships on various planes. It envisages a society in which equal regard is shown to the welfare of every individual, and in which equal, effective and maximum opportunities of self-realisation are placed within the reach of one and all without any discrimination.
Men, who adhering to wrong pripoiples acquire wealth by evil deeds, will lose it, falling into the spares of their passions and being held captive by their hatred.
.-Uttradhyayana Sutia