Economics of Mahaveera

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Adarsh Sahitya Sangh

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dimension. Enough thinking has not been devoted to these concerns. If adequate attention had been given to all these in a balanced way, the expressions like 'we have to move forward', have not to go back', 'have to become prosperous' would not have advanced to the forefront.
Increasing Mental Strésses Today, the problem of physical health has become a critical phenomenon, thanks to the way pollution has increased and the way chemical materials are being sprayed. These practices have affected the physical health very badly. What is more, even mental health has been affected. If we make a comparative study of the conditions today and those prevailing five decades or six decades ago, we would realise how mental confusion has grown as a result of which more mental hospitals and centres for psychiatric treatment have been established. The rate of suicides has also increased, so has the frequency of divorces. With these, social crimes are growing. For controlling crime, the developed countries have to provide huge amount in their budgets. The budgetary spending for controlling crime of the developed countries exceeds the sum total of the budgets of all underdeveloped countries. No wonder then that the problem of the production of destructive weapons has assumed large proportion.
The Other Direction It is obvious that, with the intensification of these issues, the theories of Modern Economics have failed in the objective to provide food, water and essential means. In fact, it is going in the other direction. If the available resources had been used for the mitigation of hunger, then nobody would have remained without food. The dream has not been realised since the problem was not tackled along with the solution of the mental problems. Nations want to establish their dominance over other nations. To achieve this, how they create a network of spies, how new problems are created for the other nations, how countries are attacked, how countries impose restrictions on poor and underdeveloped and developing countries, are all menifestation of the