Practical Path

SR No.: 006703
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1917
Total Pages: 268
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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actually contain sutras which aim at refuting the Jaina views, though what they actually refute is not the Jaina Siddhảnta as it is understood by Jainas, but their own fanciful notions concerning its teaching.
We thus conclude that the question of the greater antiquity of the two systems of religion must be decided in favour of Jainism, and that the creed of the Holy Tirthamkaras, far from being a daughter or a rebellious child of Hinduism, is actually the basis of that undoubtedly ancient creed.
To sum up. Hinduism owes its origin to the brilliant poetical genius of men who personified, in their unbounded enthusiasm, the secret and divine powers of the soul. They were not savages, nor do their writings represent the uncultured and primtive notions of a period when humanity may be said to have been in a state of mental infancy; on the contrary, their knowledge was grounded upon the unassailable philosophy of Jainism, supported, as it is by true revelations from the Tirthamkaras. Lapse of time then effected a complete separation between the mother and daughter who subsequently fell into evil hands. This resulted in the whole host of the family of sin (sacrificial ritualisin) which she gave birth to under some terrible influence for evil. She next appears in the role of a penitent living in the seclusion of forests under the protection of the Upanishad-rishis, and still later we encounter her in the University of Thought arranging her six new, though illfitting and variegated, robes. And now that the x-ray intellectualism of modern research is trying to demonstrate her most valuable and valued adornments to be the