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Towards Universal Happiness
8. Power of Soul - The power of the soul, its infinite properties and the eternal nature of the soul, etc., are described in Jain Philosophy in various scriptures but there is hardly any focus on this aspect. Jainism is known more for ascetic practices, non-violence, forbearance, etc. but this book focuses only on the immense, most wonderful and infinite power of pure soul, whose functioning is governed by its own characteristics like a machine in the engineering sense.
9. Management of Knowledge - “Knowledge is Power” is an adage. It is indeed undebatable. Knowledge is a 'plus factor for all human beings both at home and at work. Knowledge is also a 'plus factor' for spiritual progress. It has been so throughout the history of civilisation. Knowledge management is all about understanding, improvement of knowledge building, knowledge base and using it for our self development. In a society where death is the only certainty, in an uncertain world of millions of births and deaths, only one sure source of spiritual liberation is knowledge of pure
soul.
10. Resolving Contradictions - In all the fields of knowledge such as medicine, physics, chemistry, economics, political science, sociology, etc., there are different schools of thought. Similarly, there are different schools of religious philosophy dealing with the same subject from different points of view and there is no scope for intolerance or conflicts. Using this omnipotent tool of multifaceted reality, many of our eternal questions of existence can be resolved and apparent contradictions eliminated. If people do this, the world will be a better place.
11. Science of Differentiation - The greatest principle underlying all the principles is the ability to distinguish between soul and non-soul substances. This is known as the
