Jain Journal 1989 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 9

OCTOBER, 1989
four elements identified by Hans Mol as safeguarding this integrating side of wholeness, Ahimsa seems to fit in best with what he calls "emotional anchoring" and which he relates to "those emotions that man derives from a sense of union with his environment or of the wholeness of existence." The Jain doctrine of Ahimsa seems to encapsulate this emotion par excellence.18
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10 It is worth noting, however, that in a Jain context non-violence did not necessarily entail pacifism; see Wm. Theodore de Bary, ed., Sources of Indian Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), Vol. I., pp. 86-87.