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A new society has to be created in the world. A society based on equality, mutual cooperation and brotherhood; a society where more importance is given to the happiness, convenience, and interest of others; a universal society, free of apartheid of any type including class, colour, race, and nationality. That would be a non-violent society free of disparity on the basis of caste, colour, race, and religion. There will be absolute censure of any right of exploitation by an individual or a nation. Duty will be the only right in that society.
To conceive such a society is a utopian imagination. Some people will brand it as impractical and others will call it impossible. But Jainism has faith in unlimited powers of man, his natural desire for peace, and his dislike for destruction. What is required to just evoke that inherent power and attitude? Today man is no more a man; he has become a demon, a Satan. As a demon he kills and eats animals and birds in name of religion, taste, and survival. He tortures monkeys, mice, rabbits, frogs, worms and many other creatures in name of scientific experiments. He kills beings in name of fashion. He is amassing weapons of mass destruction in name of peace and national interest. He becomes a rogue and indulges in corruption, rape, bribery, black market, smuggling, and robbery. He has succumbed to hoarding and profiteering. With selfish motives he exploits men and nations. Jainism wants to provide solutions to all these problems and turn man into a human being. It wants to stir his inherent humanity. Jainism is against the use of force or punishment for all this. It believes in taking to the path of solving these problems by evoking morality, attitude of self-control, and voluntarily accepted self-discipline.
There are certain essential requirements for livelihood. These are fulfilled by various provisions, which in turn are acquired with money. When man gets enough for his daily requirement he wishes to store something for tomorrow. But this tomorrow is very elastic. This tomorrow never comes. Everyone does not have the means and capacity to hoard. Thus goods and wealth are accumulated at a few places and innumerable people live in scarcity. Nature provides enough for man to eat. If all resources are equally shared no one will go hungry or live in scarcity. One area is rising into a mound and another turning into a depression. The hoarder of wealth is called rich and one who lives in scarcity is called poor. This class difference and disparity has created many problems in a discontented society. On one side are
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