Jainism and World Problems

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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NEED FOR THE JAINA DOCTRINE
which gradually becomes narrower and narrower till he pass through the strait gate of Asceticism and Sainthood whence there is no turning back to the world, not even to bury the dead father. The Saint is quite dead to the world; he looks upon his body as his sole enemy, and will not do anything to protect or to beautify or preserve it with the aid of drugs and the contrivances of the world.
Now our troubles may be summed up under the following heads:
1 the need for world peace, i.e., how to secure world peace ?
how to banish fear from the human heart?
3 how to get over trade depression?
how to meet unemployment?
how to establish human brotherhood on earth? 6 how to reconcile the conflicting religions? 7 how to train up the youth?
There are several other problems also but I cannot enter into them for the want of time. It will be enough if I can manage to deal with the seven that I have named in the time allotted to me. I shall try to be brief, and shall rely on your amplifying my thought in your own understanding,
To take up the first point, there is no peace in the world to-day because the causes of war have not been removed from the world. What are these causes? They are:
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1 Greed,
2 Lust,
3 Pride, and
4 Fanaticism or religious persecution, that wages war in the name of some god or other.
The remedies we possess or at least we look up to to remove these causes are as follows:
1 treaties of nations, 2 education,