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to express all our thoughts. How can we express, then, this state of a soul which so far as its power and knowledge are concerned is infinite ? The Jains, have studied the nature of the soul and the universe from these standpoints and have derived a beutiful principle, and so far as this is concerned there is this difference between this country and other countries and other religions, they can understand all these froin these standpoints. The Bible says. "Thou shalt not kill," and the Jains practise universal love so that this also means that we should not kill any beings. If we say that the Bible does not mean that we take away a part of the Bible why should we interpret the laws of any rellgion from the narrowest standpoint ? We should take into consideralion the nature, attributes and working of all things. We cannot derive laws which are to be applied to the whole universe simply by our observation of apart of the concious nature of the universe. If you wish to state correctly the nature of the universe you will study the nature of all the different parts of the universe and then the laws will be applicablc to all parts of it. We tbink that we are superior to other things because our tenants who live on the ground floor are inferior to us, but we have no right therefore to crush those tenants, who later on will acquire the right to inhabit the second and third floors and finally the highest floor. One living on the highest pla ne has no right to crush those who live
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