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30 : Applied Philosophy of Jainism sensed immobile living beings as well as waterborne, earthborne and airborne mobile creatures.
This public weal inducing non-violence will be useful and beneficial for achieving its proclaimed objective of general benefit when its positive aspect will be highlighted and presented to the general public and the inner consciousness relating to mercy, kindness, compassion, etc., will be brought to the fore. The banes of the human society such as violence, conflict and selfishness will be overcome only when we will be able to feel other's pain and misery and their pain and misery will become our own. The stream of non-violence that will flow out of such a feeling will be positive and it will establish the values like mercy, kindness, compassion, service, friendship, co-operation, etc., the world over
In his work namely Sakārātmaka Ahiṁsā, Shri Kanhaiyalal Lodha has tried to present this positive aspect of non-violence with adequate clarity and on āgamic authority. Shri Lodha is a serious scholar of Jaina scriptures and this work by him has succeeded in presenting the positive aspect of non-violence to the general populace. The publisher of this work Shri Devendra Raj Mehta, Jaipur is already engaged in the noble work of service to the disabled millions in India and abroad. He is a living example of positive non-violence. The present work has seen the light of day with his motivation only. With the hope that this work will become a medium of promoting the feelings of selfless service, mercy, kindness and compassion in the general populace in general and its readers in particular.
References :
1. Rgveda 6.75.14 2. Yajurveda 36/18 3. Old Testament (Bible) Exodus 20.2.17 4. Acārānga-cayanikā, K C Sogani, PBA, Jaipur, 64, p.44 5. Positive Non-violence, K. L. Lodha, 'PREFACE', p. IX 6. Positive Non-violence,- p. IX
