ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 04

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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daily can help us become more mentally alert in being non violent. On the other hand lack of practicing Ahi s by few is causing havoc in the form terrorism, insecurity, intolerance and no value for life of others perhaps leading us all to extinction.
Other consideration of Ahi s
Parasparopagraha jv n ma 14 or living beings help each other is the doctrine leading us to practice co-existence at least as human community, smallest to largest, local to global, characterized by no killing of humans, at least; no threats to kill; no weapons designed to kill humans and no justifications for using them; and no social conditions that are dependent upon threat or use of killing force for maintenance or change. We thus see emergence of special interest groups like Non-violent communications, ecology preservation, human and animal rights, and setting up departments in universities all over the world to teach and research on Ahi s and even setting up a university on Ahi s. The United Nations has declared October 2nd as the World Non Violence Day to be celebrated all over the world.
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In the end, I conclude that there are no choices left except to understand, preach, practice and put all efforts to make this world a non-killing society else? Thus Mah vra's conclusive pronouncement that after understanding the importance of kindness to beings, the enlightened person should preach, disseminate and applaud it at all places in East-West and North-South directions is very timely for us who understand Ahi s.
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Evolution of Nov Violence by Dr.Manoj Jain MD, MPH. He is the convener of Non violence forum in Memphis Tenn USA.
24 Tirthanakara Maha Purana by Br. Hari Lal Songarh.
Mahabharat verse /page
Patanjali Sutra 2/35 'Ahi s pratisth ya
tatsannidau vairaty gah'
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ana Samiti, Beawer) from Paper by Prof K.C.Sogani
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Pra navy kara a S tra, 6.1.3, Pages 683-684, (Jaina Vishva Bh rati, Ladnun, under the title "Angasutt ni" (3)). From Paper by Prof K.C.Sogani
Amrit Candra in Puruş rtha Siddhi Up ya'
Nonkilling Global Political Science (2002). by Prof emeritus Glenn Paige Univ of Hawaii.
Rattan Karanda Sravkacara by Samanta Bhadra
Study Notes published on www.jainstudies.org published by International School for Jain Studies New Delhi.
Social aspects of Jain religion by Shugan C Jain
Jain Diet by Shugan C. Jain
Tattv rath Sutra by Um Sv ti V.29
Bibliography (courtesy Prof Glen Paige for ISSJS 2008.)
Glenn D Paige, professor emeritus of political science, University of Hawai'i, is founder president of the Center for Global Nonviolence in Honolulu, Hawai'i (1994-). In 2008 it is in transition to become a Center for Global Non-killing. He published Non-killing Global Political Science (2002). By 2008 the book had been translated into fifteen languages all over the world including Hindi and Tamil. A number of articles on various aspects of Ahi s in www.globalnonviolence.org. Kool, V.K. 2007. Psychology of Non-violence and Aggression. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nobel Peace Laureates. 2007. Charter for a World without Violence. Rome: December 13-15, 2007. www.nobelforpeace-summits.org/ENG/PDF/2007/CHARTER ULTIMATE.pdf.
2005. "Nonkilling Global Society." In Peace Section edited by Ada Aharoni, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Developed under the auspices of UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, U.K. http:www.eolss.net.
Ram, Senthil and Ralph Summy, eds. 2007. Nonviolence: An Alternative for Defeating Global Terror (ism). Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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