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ECONOMICS OF MAHAVIRA
organisation. We never gave attention to the inner system. Until man does not change from inside, what good can a change in the system alone achieve? Man may manufacture the best possible motor car. If the driver is not skilled and reliable, there would always be a risk. In the world in which we are living, all our activities, all our behaviour, start with conflict. Wherever there is a conflict, nobody can work alone. He can.do neither the internal work alone nor the external work alone. The inner situation should change first and then the external situation should change. If we have the desire to change the present economic system and establish a new economic system, a correction of the earlier mistake will have to be made. In my view, it was a horrible mistake and without rectifying it, nothing will be possible.
Some Norms
For introducing the new economic system, we will have to put some parameters before us. The new economic system should be such that:
it does not become a danger to world peace; it brings about a reduction in crime; it does not encourage violence; and it promotes the feeling of non-destructiveness in matter.
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The Primary Condition The first essential premise is that the economic system does not pose to be a danger to world peace. Anybody who wants to develop in isolation, whether an individual, a society or a nation, will create a threat. In this context, the significant principle of Mahavira is:
Je loyam abbhaikkhai se utanam akbhcikkhi, Je atanam abbhaikkhi se loyam abbhaikkhi. One who rejects the people and the world rejects his own existence and the one who rejects his own existence rejects the existence of the world.
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