People continue to value food, sleep and sex. They continue to be averse to fasting, willful waking and celibacy. They continue to like fighting, hating others and attaching importance to grief. And so, we are as far away from peace, happiness and love as we were thousands of years ago. You may ask what the value of medicines is when, in spite of their use on a wide scale, diseases continue to multiply.
Nature works through dualism and that is why medicines and diseases continue to exist together.
Excerpts from the book 'Ramblings of An Ascetic', published by Books Today, New Delhi, India 1979. Back up 2. According to the basic tenets of Jainism, man is nonviolent by nature. However, these observations of the scholarly acharya relate to human beings who have passionate regard for the material world.