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conferences to avoid wars and attendant destructions The rays of non-violence are increasingly peeping through to usher in a new era of peace and progress in the war-torn world This will give us a better world in twenty-first century The impact of this Jinistic principle has resulted in movements like 'Land Gift of Vinobaji and 'Renunciation of meal once a week of L B Shastri in India for reducing the rich-poor conflicts and increase the amount of happiness in general The WHO, UNICEF, Red Cross Society, Lion and Rotary movements and many other philanthropic institutions throughout the world are the proponets for improving chances of peace and progress They are working on Jinisitic principle without any adjective (d) Economic Problems Jinistic Socialism It is seen that the world is infested with disparities on economic fronts There are pairs of classes like rich-poor, master-servant, landlord-peasant, mill-ownerworker and the like where the capitalistic trend has resulted in majority of them under deprivation and turmoil The Jinistic perception of all men are religiously and morally equal' has been out of the way since long The natural instinct of ambition in men has resulted in these classes and class wars Formerly, the religion also seemed to support this status quetist view psychologically on the basis of Karma theory However, this was neither desirable nor justified in view of the mutational character of Karmas The Jinistic perception of Aparlgraha or equitable distribution and sharing of wealth, denational duty and limitation of wants and greedy nature have paved the way to eliminate the above disparities Collectively, these perceptins are termed as 'Jinistic Socialism' This has potency to equalise human beings at physical and social level too They are already equal spiritually This perception is again a humanitarian application of non-violence which develops an attitude on non-attachment towards wealth and encourages its proper distribution as indicated by Kempfort' This attitude will have to be ingrained in human mind to cherish for an egalitarian society The current systems of Gandhism, Communism etc are but newer varieties of this Jinistic socialism with different types of adjustments The co-operative movement throughout the world is its another version (E) Environmental Problems
The most important aspects of Jinistic perceptions have been the cultivation of
