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look at our photo first. The increasing commercialisation of communication media & the entertainment industry has taken its toll and made us anti-social, aggressive, unemotional, fearful and full of complexes. Violence is not only apparent in reshaped form, but also prevalent everywhere in an invisible form.
Those, who are playing the role of nimitta, are successful in creating such an atmosphere that a common person is feeling snapped with the power of upadan. Those who are engaged in creating mafia like dominance do not allow selfconfidence to be generated in the masses. It is their attempt to make others subordinate, dependent on them, and accustomed to the sense of helplessness. They never remember Mahavir's dictum: that every person or every entity is a creator of self-destiny. On the other hand, gratefulness towards nimitta (instrumental agency) is being considered useless; whereas earlier it was not so. While in the past, salutation to all the Arihants, Siddhas, Acaryas, Teachers and Saints became a revered Mahamantra among Jains; anger, jealousy and not only false pretensions but ungratefulness, were all considered as a destroyer of human qualities (Sthanang Sutra 4/4). The post-war modern chicanery is to try to pull the ladder, by means of which you are elevated. Don't name the nimitta; otherwise, a share will go to it from the credit of your success.
MODERN CHALLENGES To save the earth and humanity, these challenges can be faced in a cool, reasoned and lasting manner by remembering Mahavir. Today, 2600 years after Mahavir, can we take a vow to return to his thought and conduct?
It is not too late. After traversing a thousand or two thousand miles in the wrong direction, we need not walk the same distance to find the right direction. We have just to take a U-turn. As soon as we take a U-turn, we shall be facing the right direction.
