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for other living being, penance, fast helps in saving food & nature, ecological balance which indirectly help in creating better health.
Air pollution causes respirctory illness cough skin cancer. Water pollution causes gastric diseases. Noise pollution causes desensitization of auditory organs & irritability
Non-violence is unlimited tolerance & mental disturbance Jain ethics of non violence is spiritual ecological & biological, teaches live & let live. To be healthy physically & psychologically means mind & body both must be healthy. If we disregard the existence of earth, air, water, vegetation, our existence will be destroyed. Pollution in air, earth, water, vegetation may affect our food we eat, air we breath and affect our health. Environmental concerns require non-violence life style by cultivating helping attitude, detachment, universal friendship attitude of restraint, minimal use of natural resources & consumables, cultivating habit of carefulness in all activity, tolerance. Wishing welfare of all gives peace, tranquility, satisfaction.
Modesty, discipline, compassion, charity are essence of Jainism. Frustration, corruption, lust, black marketing are rampant exploitation. Jainism is renunciation & not for cardinal pleasures, reconsolidation & not confrontation, parity & not disparity purity & not impurity, love & not hatred, revenge indignation or unhealthy competition. Jain ethical life-style lead to good health false. notions, passions, vitiates his life.
Nutritious food makes body healthy. Good thoughts makes mind healthy.
Life is one unit cant be compartmentalized you pretend to be a good man in monastery or at funeral but moment you come out of it you are hypocritical. There must be harmony between materialistic progress & spiritual advances. If gain whole world but you are loosing your own soul & after that what? Jainas believe in minimizing needs with idea of final destination. When river is flooded its banks are washed away. Addicts lose sight of decency & decorum. Desire to be rich overnight gave birth to gambling vice haunts the gambler. like ghost.
Non stealing- No thief can enjoy stolen things. He is always in fear of being apprehended & spoils his health due to tension & mental illness. Science has made life confortable & disease -tree but works in material sphere. Internal devotion is spiritual journey within difficulty to conquer hunger & mind it purities both mind & body. Gandhiji said it cures bodily ills & boosts moral. Corrupt person is never at ease he harbours physical & psychological ills. Tranquility is not his lot.
Good conduct means observing five vows resulting into peace of mind & sound sleep without taking recourse to compose. People feel
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