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CHAPTER II
Jainism and The Modern Civilisation.
The Jaina philosophy is particularly suited to create and shape a conscience for the effective performance of those human obligations without which there can be do progress in modern times I should say, better suitable for creating conditions in the present day world for ordered advance in the way of general happiness. To a follower of this reminds the object of Right-living - that is to say living in harmony with the universe. If human happiness and progress depend on doing away with selfishness, Jain philosophy farnishes a faith and a culture which can support and strengthen the compulsory laws of humanity for a better world. Jain philosophy has raised catholicity and tolerance to the lavel of positive and cardinal religious duties which have the potentialities to make the greatest positive contribution to civilisation. It has no quartel either with the physicist or the geologist - yet offers a firm spiritual foundation for a new cooperative and catholic polity for the governance of the world. It is not an opiate but a powerful driving force which can be an automatic regulator..
If by chance somebody comes to think that the civil. isation in India has failed to prove this fact, the fault lies into the latter day decline of devotion to Jainism, and not in the philosophy itself. Jainism is based oot on fear por
