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JAINA CONCEPT OF PEACE
Prof. Sagarmal Jain
PEACE THE NEED OF OUR AGE
We are living in the age of science and technology. The advanement in our scientific knowledge has removed our religious superstitions and
gmas. But unfortunately and surprisingly, side by side it has also shakened our mutual faith and faith in moral virtues as well as religio-spiritual values. The old social and spiritual values of life acting as binding on humanity and based on religious beliefs have been made irrelevant by scientific knowledge and logical thinking, Till date, we have been unable to build or evolve a new value structure, so necessary for meaningful and peaceful living in society, based on our scientific and logical outlook. We are living in a state of total chaos. In fact this present age is the age of transition, old values have become irrelevant, but no new values have been established. We have more knowledge, and faith in atomic structure and atomic power, than the values needed for meaningful and peaceful life. Today we strongly rely on the atomic power as our true rescuer and discard the relegio-spiritual values as mere superstitions. Mr. D.R. Mehta rightly observes 'in the present day world with religion getting separated from daily life and spreading commercialisation killing (violence has increased manifold and sensitivity to (other's) life whether animal or human has declined in proportion. For us human being is either a complicated machine or at least a developed animal, governed by his instincts and endowed with some faculties of mechanical reasoning. Thus
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