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a deaf ear to the opinions of others, it is definitely heading for self-destruction.
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· Jainism promises to reconcile all the conflicting schools, not by inducing any of them necessarily to abandon their favourite standpoints but by proving to them that the standpoints of all others are tenable. They may be representative of some aspect of truth which can, with some modification, be represented. The Integrity of Truth consists in this very variety of all its aspects. .
This philosophy makes the Jain, catholic in his outlook and ever ready to understand the nature of other systems of theology.
This brings us to the third pillar of Jainism-Aparigraha-Nonacquisition.
Has it not been said, "It is easy to free oneself from iron chains but not from the attachments of the heart ?”
What are these "attachments of the heart ?” Things that you desire so much that you spend all your energy in acquiring them and when you have acquired them, you get so attached to them that their loss would render your life most unhappy. The principle of nonacquisition teaches us not to give too
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