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SCIENCE
millenniums in the company of devas and devangrad (residents of heavens of both sexes). Those who are endowed with Right Faith are attended apop by great emperors and kings; they acquire all the most wonder - ful things ip the world ; the entire earth comes under their sway, and they are goinpetent to command all
men, - They who take refnge in Right Faith finally attain to the
Soprene Seat, which is free from old age, disease, destruction, decrease, grief, fear and donbt, and implies anqualified perfectiou in respect of Wisdom and Blier and freedom from all kinds of impurities of karna. The bhavya * who follows the creed of the Holy Tirthamkaras of acquires the immeasurable glory of deva-life and the discus of a chakravarti I before whom kings nud rulers of inen prostrate thenuselves, and, attaining to the supremely worshipful status of Godhood, finally
also reaches nirvans." It only remaios to say that the couclusions drawn in this evening's lecture are all those that are embodied in the Jaina Siddlânta, which is seen to be in full agreement with science. We shall also find most of these conclusions in the other creeds as we get on with our studies in comparative religion.
* The soul that is destined to reach nirvana.
An Omniscient Teacher. I lhe title of the twelve great kings who possessed the
di vive weapon called chalera (adiscus).
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