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CHAPTER IV
Jainism and The Modern Thought
Today we are living in an age where in religion is drifting away from the human mind. The rapid advance. ment of science and technology has displaced Faith by what is termed Reason which is made known by intellect. It is taken for certain that the law of cause and effect which operates in the material world operates universally and that too effectively in the sphere of mind and that this theory is the product of organised matter Thus with the help of science we are continuously piling up means on means for satisfying our physical wants and cravings without any thought of the ends of human existence.
Matter is a formula so to say what happens where it is not. A pure and simple form of NASTIK-VAD. On such a thought there would be no class for the problems of understanding and value of life, only serving the purpose of gratifying the bodily appetites, accumulation of wealth and conquest of power which is the bane of present age.
Of the CHATURVIDH PURUSHARTH DHARMA, ARTHA, KAMA and MOKSHA as made known to us by our ancient seers and sages, we have become today actually the slaves of Artha and Kama. Dharma with its LIASON with the unseen shattered,
