Jain Journal 2010 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL : VOL-XLV. NO. I-IV JULY.-JUNE 10-11
and wants to serve his selfish motives. Jainism permits only a householder and not a monk to protect his rights throuth violent means in exceptional cases. But the fact remains that violence for Jainas is an evil and it cannot be justified as a virtue in any case. 10
Problem of Disintegration of Human Society:
The disintegration of human race is also one of the basic problems, humanity is facing today, Really, the human race is one and it is we who have erected the barriers of caste, creed, colour, nationalities etc. and thus disintegrated the human race. We must be aware of the face that our unity is natural while these divisions are artificial and man made. Due to these artificial man made divisions, we all are standing in opposition to one another. Instead of establishing harmony and mutual love, we are spreading hatred and hostility in the name of these man-made artifical divisions of caste, creed and colour. The pity is that we have become thirsty of the blood of our own fellow beings. It is a well known far been fought on account of these man-made artificial divisions. Not only this, we are claiming the superiority of our own caste, creed and culture over others and thus throwing one class against the other. Now, not only in India but all over the world class-conflicts are becoming furious day by day and thus disturbing the peace and harmony of human society. Jainism, from its inception, accepts the oneness of human race and oppose these man made divisions of caste and creed. Lord Mahavira declared that''human race is one.'11 He further says that there is nothing like inferiority and superiority among them. All men are equal in their potentiality. None is superior and inferior as such. It is not the class but the purification of self or a good conduct that makes one superior. 12 It is only through the concept of equality and unity of mankind, which Jainism preached from the very beginning. that we can eradicate the problem of disintergration and class-conflict. It is mutual conflict but mutual co-operation. Which is the law of living in his work Tattvartha sutra, Umasvāti maintains that