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WORLD PEACE THROUGH JAINA'S WAY OF
LIVING
Dr. Suresh C. Jain
This planet embraces both living and non-living things made up of matter and soul. Livings have some fion-living elements (master) like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphate, sulphure with peculiar qualities due to soul. Scientifically all livings may be plants or animals have a special type of energy-consciousness and can be called soul or 'atma'. There are innumerable life-form including human, living in air, water and soil from billions of years. The balance in environment is a product of natural evolution since the time of origin of life. The birth and death of organisms, their life systems, diseases, interrelationships with natural phenomena like earthquake, lightening and erosion establish a complex of nature, which provides an equilibriuin between livings and non-livings including a permanent peace to this planet.
Peace on this planet can only be established through a well constituted equilibrium between various components of the planet like livings both plants and animals and non-livings, plants and animals and so on. Any disturbance in the natural balance specially due to antinature activities of human result in violence i.e, disturbance in peace. Thus the absolute pleasure (sukh) is achieved only by following the way of living according to laws of nature universe (khagol) whereas 'dukh' comes by following the way of living against the laws of nature. Similarly the activity which goes against the laws of nature and create an imbalance in natural equilibrium of the planet is cited as sin (paap) whereas punya' is activity which held in establishing and maintaining a balan'e in the natural equilibrium of the planet.
The norms suggested in Jain religion to be followed in the way of living by the followers are aimed to achieve absolute pleasure and live according to laws of nature. Religion is a basic nature of soul and a binding force of one soul with another, This force is present in all livings and even in non-livings of the earth and they do love, attract and even cooperate with each other when they develop the power of realising the nature of soul, life and religion. In Jaina's literatures we find a detailed description of 'sravakacara' method of
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