Environmental Doctrines of Jainism

Author(s): S M Jain
Publisher: S M Jain

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- Ratnakarand Shravakachar "One should reduce or optimize meals, vehicles, sleep, bathing, use of perfumes, flowers, clothing, sex, music etc.".
This is very relevant for environment protection as it prompts non-consumerism. a fute forcimie 112/5/98 ||
- Acharanga Sutra "One should not take impure adulterated food, should be pure vegetarian".
Vegetarianism is highly beneficial for environment protection as non-vegetarian takes almost ten times more than a vegetarian and puts much more pressure on environment. Animals eat vegetation and utilize
90% of the calorie intake for their metabolism and store only 10% as meat and thus a non-vegetarian gets indirectly only 10% of vegetation consumed by animals or birds whose meat he consumes and thus requires ten times more vegetation, land, water, manure than directly consuming vegetation. "URS HER. HE3 5|12/6/145 ||*
- Acharanga Sutra "Good person tolerates austerity and hardship and does not indulge in sensual pleasures". aregut for you
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- Acharanga Sutra "Only foolish gets entangled in attachments and sex and suffers". UT EU UT ET pud VIIMISI 13/2/42||
- Acharanga Sutra "He, the wise neither destroys nor gets destroyed by others nor acquiesces destruction of any sort."
This is a very important instruction for protection and preservation of environment as it is over exploitation and destruction of natural resources that is the main cause of environmental degradation
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- Purusharth Siddhyupaya "Though violence is mainly committed as a result of one's own thoughts, emotions and actions, yet external factors, situations, family and social environment which are instrumental in creating emotions of anger etc. should also be avoided."
This is important. In addition to person himself external factors are also important for non-violence. Not only social environment but natural physical environment, its pollution, climate change, famines, storms, floods, earthquakes also disturb peace and harmony and generate emotions of anger etc. Overall harmony in both social and natural environmental is necessary "3740914 H T, UT VT 415 13/3/51 ||
- Acharanga Sutra "Wise and learned are never careless in their actions". "Ha eri , Tratay 13/3/58 |||
- Acharanga Sutra "One should not indulge in any sort of ridiculing and insulting, mentally, by speech and body". 6 7. HT . T . TH 7|13/4/68||
- Acharanga Sutra "One should abandon psychic emotions of anger, vanity, hypocrisy and greed." U TRI 14/1/811"
- Acharanga Sutra "One should not indulge in self praise and aggrandizement".