Jainism and World Problems

SR No.: 006708
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
It is fairly evident to all thoughtful minds that the world of to day is all topsy-turvy in almost all essential respects. There is starvation in the midst of plenty; 30,000,000 being the number of the unemployed among the European races alone. There is the eternal rush for armaments, and political power, the greed for gold and the grabbing of territory. Hearth and home have been threatened by the unchecked free-thinkerism of the modern generation; churches and temples and pagodas are deserted while cinemas and theatres are thronged; and religion itself has been routed by irreligion. The main cause of all this variety of troubles and undesirable conditions is one and only one-our ill-conceived Ideals.
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To-day people are living under the unwholesome conviction that man is mere dust and returneth to dust. viction produces its own unhappy complex in the mind and casts an evil spell over all the phases of human thought. The belief is the outcome of the supremacy of materialism, which itself is due to the failure of Religion to meet the argument of modern science in a fair and open fight. If we had made a real study of the scriptures of the world's religions, we would have discovered that Religion was itself the highest of all sciences, and could be relied upon to defend itself effectively against any form of attack from its opponents. But we have failed even to realize the simple fact that the books of most of the religions are couched not in plain language, but in allegorical expression, and completely misdirected ourselves as to their purport and the teaching of their founders. men insist on reading symbolic thought in an historical way, it is not surprising that history and science should be constantly piling up concrete facts to discredit the historical reading of the scriptural text. This is not the place for the
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