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what is left for me to add about missiles or bombs ? If to a Jain, the killing of a worm is an act of cruelty, it would be superfluous to talk about the atrocity of wiping out the human race! So too, we have already covered the ground for the malaise of racialism. If we recognise the fact that the soul is the same, whatever outward form it may be given, where then is the reason for racial prejudices ? In Aparigraha, Non-acquisition, lies the solution for the unequal distribution of wealth. There need not be any ‘ism' about it. Jainism is not like any of the modern ‘isms.' 2,500 years ago Bhagwan Mahavira gave us the antidote to unequal distribution of wealth in His Doctrine of Aparigraha, Non-acquisition.
The last problem-Youth Unrest-calls for a more detailed analysis. I will endeavour to show how we may deal with it.
What is the relevance of religion to Modern Youth ?
Is not the modern youth justified in demanding to know why so many crimes have been committed in the name of Religion? He has read in his history books lurid accounts of persecution and atrocities by religious fanatics in all parts of the world. He ‘is fully conscious that it is might, and not right, that rules the world. He sees the truthful and the just be-laboured by the selfish and the unscrupulous, and no gods rush down to their rescue in heavenly chariots as one is told in legends. How can he then believe that “God is in His heaven-all's right with the world ?" He sees for himself that all's wrong
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