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casteless and creedless society which is the need of the day This principle is a very important instrument in socialistic tempo of the Jaina system It requires persons to think ever any issue from many angles before taking any decision that is what the management people suggest Thus, this principle asks us to manage our mind, speech and body to be in tune for maximum benefit to the individual and society The Jaina philosophy discusses many topics on physical and spiritual issues on logical and intellectual basis This has influenced the world of philosophers in the east and west It is highly impressive and is referred by many noted scholars This has provoked the middle course way in real life The western Journals have a variety of comparative discussions on this concept in modern language This philosophy is also an off-shoot of non-violence and other triads However, this requires presentation of Jinistic philosophical works through English language for wider objective—a high need for twenty first century (g) Social vs Individual Aspects It has been pointed out that the basically socialistic concepts of Jainism were later transformed into pre-dominently individualistic bias This is the case of all eastern religious systems This might have happened at the start of devotional cult and in middle ages This has led to catastrophe in general life The man has become so much individualistic that one almost overlooks the society and we are facing the disorder in almost all spheres of life and the nation itself The twentieth century end requires that the medieval age trend should be reversed to socialistic objectives as the individual is made through the society and one's own contnbution is very small The west could grow through socialistic base though it is also now moving towards the same catastrophic line The saint and intelligensia should try to modify their traditional views to get the idea of socialistic objectives of the religion into daily practice The twenty first century requires this background from the twentieth century people It has been pointed out by many scholars that this trend has been responsible for non-popularisation of Jinistic perceptions Of course, there were many other factors too like absence of impressive saints, lack of internal power and practices and concept of harsh and rigid vows etc All these factors have to be tuned with respect to regions and times The pastorientation and traditional language are also such factors The twenty first century requires that these drawbacks should be minimised as far as possible to
