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obtained by knowledge and religious observances. The five Mahavratas or great commandments for Jain Ascetics are not to kill i, e. to protect all life; not to lie; not to take that which is not given; to abstain from sexual intercourse; to renounce all interest in wordly things especially to call nothing one's own.
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· Mr. Gandhi prefaced bis paper with remarks in refernce to the allegations of the previous day against the morality of the Hindu religion. He said:
"I am glad that no one has dared to attack the religion I represent. It is well they should not. But every attack has been directed to the abuses exisiting in our society: And I repeat now, what I repeat every day, that these abuses are not from religion but in spite of religion, as in every other country. Soine men in their ambition think that they are Pauls and what they think they believe, and where should these new Pauls go to vent their platitudes but India ? Yes Sir, they go to India to convert the heathen in a mass but when they find their dreams melting away, as dreams always do, they return back to pass a whole life in abusing the
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