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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XLIX, NO. 1-IV JULY 2014-JUNE 2015
Tirthankar Mahavira says, “kill no creature” and even avoid accidental injury to all living beings. Jains wear nose-masks to stop inhalation of microbes. These are many important principles laiddown by Jainism to avoid any type of harm to water, air, fire, and other forms of life. It also asserts on minimizing such evils like sound pollution, and thus helps to maintain the balance between community and ecology. Conclusion
The mismatch between and carrying capacity of natural resources is increasing and is eating away the very resource base necessary for all life-forms including humans. Mankind being at the top of the pyramid in biosphere has the sole responsibility to check further deterioration and reverse the trend towards better environment. Hope fully, the realisation is coming and people are now aware of environmental hazards. Human ingenuity with its present phenomenal wealth of knowledge as never before, will certainly beable to rectify and redeem the damage done mainly by its own anthropocentric attitudes. The process will be difficult but not in surmountable. It will need tremendous collective efforts and will power of manking as a whole. The first step should be to change attitude from anthropocentric and selfish to compassionate and universal for all the constituents of environment both animate and inanimate and universal for all the constituents of environment both animate and inanimate. The attitudinal change then should be translated inpractice and deeds.
Thus we can say that ancient Indians were very much aware about the ecology and sustainability. It helps in solving specific environmental problems and the modern principles of sustainability were adopted at that time. But unfortunately we have forgotten those golden principles laid up by them. The Jaina programs of environmental education could be expanded to prepare future leaders to be more familiar with environmental issues.
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