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Jaina Concept of Non-possession... : 67 ity, political subjugation and class conflicts not only today but from its remote past. Though some of these have assumed and alarming proportion today, yet no doubt the most crucial problem of our age is, or for coming generation would be, that of ecological misbalance. Only a half century back we could not even think of it. But today everyone is aware of the fact that ecological misbalance is directly related to the very survival of human race. Non-attachment means Regard for Other's Necessities As I have already mentioned that most burning problem of our age is the problem of mental tensions. The nations, who claim more civilised and economically more advanced, are much more in the grip of mental tensions. The main objective of Jainism is to emancipate man from his sufferings and mental tensions. First of all we must know that what is the cause of these mental tensions? For, Jainism, the basic human sufferings are not physical, but mental. These mental sufferings or tensions are due to the attachment towards worldly objects. It is the attachment, which is fully responsible for them. The famous text Uttarādhyayana-sūtra mentions, “The root of all sufferings physical as well as mental, of everybody including gods, is attachment towards the objects of worldly enjoyment.” It is the attachment, which is the root cause of mental tensions. If mankind is to be freed from mental tensions, it is necessary to grow a detached outlook in life. Jainism believes that the lesser will be the attachment the greater will be the mental piece. It is only when attachment is vanished; the human mind will be free from mental tensions and emotional disorders. Jainism preaches the vow of complete nonpossession for the ascetics and the vow to limit one's own possession for the householders, which are technically called as aparigrahamahāvrata and parigraha-parimāņa-vrata respectively. Aparigraha : The Humane Solution Our age is the age of science and technology. Science and technology have done a great service to the mankind by providing amenities of pleasant living; scientific discoveries have enabled man to master Nature. But, now, man is showing the defects of ‘slave turned
