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Economic Aspect of Non-Violence
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Production
There are various types of production because human life needs many things in order to satisfy its demands. The main productions may be classified as following -
1) Food Production 2) Cloth Production 3) Medicine Production 4) Instruments and Arms Productions
5) Building Construction Food-Production
The food productions also may be categorised as (a) Production of Corn, Fruit and Vegetables (b).Production of Milk and Curd, (c) Production of Meat (d) Production of different Drinks.
(a) Production of Corn, Vegetables and Fruits - The productions of corn, vegetables and fruits are done through agriculture. In the Rāmāyaṇa story of Rājā Janaka is mentioned, who ploughed his land for facing the famine spreading in his kingdom. Lord Krşņa himself was Gopāla i.e. the man who tames cow. The founder of Jainism Rşabhadeva taught his subjects agriculture. In the modern time the 2nd prime minister of India Śrī Lāla Bahādură Śastrī has given a slogan as “Jaya Jawāna - Jaya Kisāna” to encourage military men and farmers.
Agriculture is done by ploughing lands, which causes the killing of numberless insects and the killing, without any doubt, is put in the class of violence. So question arises - Is agriculture a type of violence? Normally it is said that where there is killing there is violence and because agriculture causes injuries so it is a sort of violence. But so far non violence is concerned, in it tension is more important than action. A doctor cannot be blamed as the killer of a patient who dies on the operation table. No doctor has any intension to kill a patient rather he always tries to save the person suffering from disease. In the same way no farmer wants to kill any insect though numberless insects are injured by him while polughing the land. All farmers desire
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