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60 : Applied Philosophy of Jainism this, we have also been deprived of our nature way of living S. Bothara maintains, “What unfortunately has happened is that the intoxication of ambition and success has made us forget even the natural discipline, inherited from the animal kingdom. One of the most striking things about the creatures is that they not only do which is required, but they also do not want more than what is required." Because of the development of mental faculties we have not only denied to accept social or religious check post but we also have denied natural checks simultaneously. Now our life-cart has only accelerator, no break. Our ambitions and desires have no limits. Those always remain unfulfilled and these unfulfilled desires create frustrations. These frustrations or resentments are the cause of our mental tension. Due to the light legged means of transportation, physical distances are no bars to meet the peoples of different nations, cultures and religions and thus, our world is shrinking. But unluckily and disdainfully because of the materialistic and selfish outlook, the distance of our hearts is increasing day by day. Instead of developing mutual love, faith and co-operation we are spreading hatred, doubt and hostility and thus deprived of peace, mental as well as environmental, the first and foremost condition of human living. Rabindra Nath Tagore rightly observes, “For man to come near to one another and yet to continue to ignore the claims of humanity is a sure process of suicide. The meaning of Aparigraha Dr. Kamla Jain observes that the word "Aparigraha'is usually translated as non-possession or non-attachment for possessions, especially in Jaina and Buddhist systems." The second meaning of aparigraha, i.e. giving gifts or dāna, to the deserving ones implies at least minimization of attachment to one's own things which are given in dāna. Non-attachment is the common feature in both the concepts, and thus the two implications are not contradictory. Now taking the concept of 'aparigraha' in Pātañjala Yoga-sūtras, Vyāsa in his commentary says, "Abstinence form acceptance of gifts is abstinence form appropriating objects, because one sees the disadvantages in acquiring them or keeping them or losing them or in
