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Darwin and of violent class-sturggle propounded by Karl Marx and extreme competitiveness of capitalism which inevitably increases violence in society. Yuvacharya Sri suggests that the sociology of non-violence can be built on the famous aphorism, "Parasparopagraho Jivānām” (Tattvārtha Sūtra) i.e. the very nature of the souls is altruistic, to be mutually benefited. This very principle of Umaswati supports the principle of complementarity, relativity, friendliness, communal harmony, tolerance and co-existence which would certainly facilitate in the formation of a peaceful society. The principle of classstruggle'is the principle of 'might is right'; of course it is closely related with violence. Yuvacharya Sri admits that society and organisers of society both are different from each other and must not be confused. Still both are very intimately related. Only good organisers can build a good organisation or a system. Therefore, a good society inevitably needs good citizens. Hence, a non-violent sociology must promote the idea of the transformation of individual as well as society altogether. According to Yuvacharya Sri, society and religion are fully independent of each other. Therefore, society should be inspired by religion and not to be governed by it. For whenever society was governed by religion, it created violence and several problems in society.
'In Jainism', Yuvacharya Sri says, the religion of the individual has been distinguished from the religion of society. The religion of individual is the religion of soul or moksha. In other words, self-realization or enlightenment or moksha (Liberation) is the highest goal of the individual. So the behaviour which helps him to progress in this direction is concerned with the existence and survival of society, management of society, cities, nation and the world community. Therefore, in a non-violent society the individual is governed by the principle of soul or spirituality and society is governed by the principle of good social relations. It is true that man is both good and evil. He is a combination of both soul and matter.
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