World Problems And Jain Ethics

Author(s): Beni Prasad
Publisher: Beni Prasad

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of life. The disciplined person continually recreates the moral order in which he has his being and contributes continuously to the moral life of the society of which he is a part.
Self-Control. In social relationships, this discipline may be described as self-control. It is the foundation of all.higher moral life in its social, economic and political aspects. Custom or law would be power loss in the absence of self-control on the part of those whom they seek to guide. A certain measure of self-control is fortunately present in every society. It is necessary, however, to deepen it as well as to enlighten it, so that it may form the basis and radiate an energy requisite for the type of economic state that would foster universal welfare.
STOJCISM ( 79€) The discipline ( EITH ) inculcated by the fourth Anuvrata leads logically to the fifth and last of the Anuvratas. It is called aftag and is in its many implications original to Jainism. It really denotes a certain self-restraint in the face of pleasures, a certain stoicism before tempta tions, a certain detachment from superfluities and super-abundances. In expounding its implications, ethical writers emphasised that one should not feel too much attachment towards his own material possessions and should resist all tempta