Bhagavana Mahavira and his Relevance in Modern Times

Author(s): Narendra Bhanavat, Prem Suman Jain, V P Bhatt
Publisher: Akhil Bharat Varshiya Sadhumargi Jain Sangh

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Mahāvira's Non-violence in Modern Scientific Age
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opportunist or pleasure-seeker may try to put forth some lame excuse or other for its breach. Human activities and Non-violence :
Mahatma Gandhi says "Non-violence is not a cloistered virtue confined to sages and cave-dwellers. It is the law of human existence. So rule of non-violence can be properly developed and extended to the domains of ethics, economics, politics, admin.stration, international commerce by introducing moral values as factors underlying this Rule of Non-violence. Truth, honesty, charity, tolerance, forbearance and other human virtues are only the corollaries flowing naturally by extension of this fundamental rule of non-violence cum love to various walks of life. So even in this scientifically advanced age, this rule, if followed both in letter and spirit, would facilitate the establishment of peace and happiness in the whole world as one unit.