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ties of these people which you should be proud to emulate their sense of punctuality, their sense of organisation and discipline, their sense of order and love of manual labour, above all their sense of acceptance of differences and willingness and joy for working together for agreed objectives. Always be proud and at the same time grateful and humble to acknowledge that your living here has been brought about by conscious powerful forces unknown to you but not unknowable by you for a nobler and a higher objective.
The next important step is to show amongst yourselves that you are Jains only not emphacizing any one of its divisions viz Shvetambara-s, Digambara-s, Sthanakvasi-s. Terapanthi-s, Vispanthi-s, Rajchandri-s, or even Kanji Swami-ites etc. I am not asking you to give up what you have inherited or in what you have been conditioned and brought up since childhood by your parents and your first divisi
livisional groupings. I am only asking you to accept all these divisions whole-heartedly' as true Jains, meaning thereby that you learn to actively participate in the various forms of rituals and worship i.e Samavika and Pooja and Sthanak or Upashraya-related requirements that have been already held sacred and memorized. I am not asking for integration or synthesis to create anything new. Only Jainism is enough with all the differences and divisions so far created or in existence. I am very much alive to the fact that if such an integration or synthesis was at all possible during all these centuries after Lord Mahavira, it would have most surely come about looking to the colossal intelligence and magnificent scriptures that we have inherited of which we are justly proud.
With these two accomplishments, the next most important step is the distribution of authentic scriptures in this part of the world on a very gigantic scale, even greater than that of the Bible distribution of which we are all aware. Umaswami's "TattvarthaSutram", Kundkundacharya's "Panchastikaya-Sara, Samaya-Sara and Pravachana-Sara, all rendered in English, French, Spanish, Russian and German togetherwith "Key of Knowledge" by Barrister C.R.Jain
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| SR No. | 006582 |
| Book Title | Jainism by Vividus |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ramnik V Shah |
| Publisher | Ramnik V Shah Canada |
| Publication Year | 1990 |
| Total Pages | 212 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 11 MB |