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has a wide power to control economic corruption in the society. Fourth vrata is important for restraint of sexual corruption. It has at least three benefits: - (1) Increase in mental and spiritual power, (2) control over sexual corruption in the society and (3) control over some diseases like AIDS.
The fifth vow (vrata) puts limits to the desires of a man or woman for possessing more and more things. It weakens or dissolves the greed towards acquisition of worldly things. Most of the conflicts arise in the society due to money, land, properties, power etc. This parigraha-parimāņa vrata keeps a person tensionless because of the limit of desire. Jaina philosophy says:
“Even if the whole world is given to a person, he will not be satisfied by it, hence the worldly things cannot contend a soul.”87
The modern society is heading towards the final critical stage of capitalism and facing the danger of the greed of acquiring materialistic things. Jainism does not oppose the science and scientific development, but it makes us cautious about the attachment towards the materialistic world. If we do not want to suffer from tension, depression, or bodily diseases then we must avoid extreme ambition for possession of materialistic goals. Uttarādhyayanasūtra points out:
“If the whole world is yours, whole money is yours, then also it is not sufficient for you, and it cannot protect you."
Utt 8.16: kasinam pi jo imam loyam, padipunņam dalijja ikkassa;
tenāvi se na samtusse, ii duppurae ime āyā. “ Utt 14.39 : savvam jagam jai tubbham, savvam vā vi dhaņam bhave;
savvampi te apajjattam, neva tānāya tam tava.
