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PARAMETERS OF New ECONOMIC POLICY
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Mahavira said, “Do not reject the existence of the world and do not reject your existence as well. The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only single element. When you do something for yourself you must know what you do for yourself will impact the entire world." A question would arise in one mind: What can he, as an humble person, do? What effect can his action produce on the big world? It is our mistake to entertain such a question.
Mahavira observes from the perspective of anekanta that when a finger makes a movement, the entire world vibrates. All the atoms associated with the atoms of the finger are activated. The entire chain is interlinked. Similarly, the Jain acharyas have explained that when we remove a yarn from the cloth, an atom linked with it will reach the pond and vibrate the entire pond; it will reach the ocean and vibrate the entire ocean. We are not alone, we are interlinked with the entire world. That is how the principle of anekanta got formulated - a single element is neither different nor is it the same as the total. It is both separable and inseparable. A person is not entirely different from this universe and yet he is not entirely the same. Our existence is inter-related with the entire world. That is why a person is not entirely different and yet has his independent existence. If he is inseperable, it is obvious that he would influence the entire world. That is why it has been said that one who tries to analyse and comprehend himself really analyses and understands the entire universe.
Individual and the World Let us now do some thinking in the context of both, the individual and the world. None of our thinking processes should be in the context of the individual alone leaving the world aside, nor of the total world dissociated from the individual. It is only the twincontext of the individual and world that should guide our thought and policy.
When we formulate a policy for the global economy, the first thing that must guide us is that the subject policy does not become a threat to world peace and does not become a threat to the
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