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ing-strings for the intellect, the progress of the ordiDary scientific student is made tolerably easy." This is the scientific method of study. Never in this method is brought into prominence the necessity of psychological and ethical improvement of the mind which wishes to study the great problems of life and the universe. Self restrain, the first step in acquiring true knowledge, sacrifice of the cherished habits of mind, giving up of Drishti-raga, as we Jains call it, which are in our opinion the sine qua non of full and clear understanding of the self and the non-self, are saldom taken into consideration in the Westera method of thinking.
This vice of the popular method of thinking is specially apparent in religious propagandists and political leaders. Their idols symbolised in certain words remain always unflinching. Atheisın, Fatherbood of God.
The Occult Law of Sacrifice.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
The Western scholars and scientific men of the modern age draw a demarkation line between animals and men, and we are told that animals are ouly conscious, while human beings are self conscious. Self consciousness is supposed to be the naturally inherited
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