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Sagarmal Jain: The World's Problems and Jaina View-Point
are endless like sky3. Thus the lust for and the attachment towards the objects of worldly pleasure is the sole cause of human tensions.
If mankind is to be freed from mental tensions, it is necessary to grow a detached outlook in life. Jainism believes that the lesser the attachment, the greater will be the mental peace. It is only when attachment vanishes, the human mind becomes free from mental tensions and emotional disorders and attains equanimity which is the ultimate goal of all our religious practices and pursuits.
The problem of Survival of Human Race and Disarmament: The second important problem the world is facing today is the problem of the survival of human race itself. Due to the tremendous advancement in war technology and nuclear weapons, the whole human race is standing on the verge of annihilation. Now it is not the question of survival of any one religion, culture or nation, but of the whole humanity. Today we have guided missiles but unfortunately unguided men. The madness of the advancement in scientific knowledge and out look our faculty of faith has been destroyed. When mutual faith and faith in higher values of co-operation and co-existence is destroyed, doubts take place. Doubts cause fear, fear produces the sense of insecurity, which results in accumulation of weapons. This mad race for accumulation of weapons is to lead to the total annihilation of human race from this planet.
Thus, the problem of survival of mankind is related to the question of disarmament. To meet this aim first of all we will have to develop mutual faith of trust and thus remove the sense of fear and insecurity, which is the sole cause of armament-race, and then to check the made race for weapons. Let us think what means have been suggested by the Jain as to solve the problem of human survival and to check the mad race for weapons. For Jainas, it is the sense of insecurity which causes fear and vice a versa. Insecurity results in the accumulation of weapons. So it is our prime duty to develop the sense
