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YTHAGORAS called 'three' the perfect number-expressive of beginning, middle and end. The concept of Trinity is common to most religions. The Christians have the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The Hindus have the Brahmā, Vishnu and Maheś. The Buddhists have Buddha, His Order, and the Law. The Jainas' Holy Trinity consists of Right Belief, Right Knowledge and the Right Conduct. If we have to anthropomorphize abstract virtues, we have had in modern times the three Ascended Masters-Barrister Jugmander Lal, Brahmchari Sital Pershad and Pandit Ajit Prasada. Between them, they exhausted all possibilities of translation and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures. It is not possible for a layman to go through all that copia verborum in a lifetime. This volume is an attempt to put the wisdom of the Ancients in a nutshell.
FOREWORD
I am grateful to Shri Gyan Chand Jain of Lucknow Kirana Company for financing the printing of this work. But for his assistance, it would not have been possible to publish these Prefaces to the Sacred Books of the Jains.
Lake Terrace, Calcutta 29, July 1, 1958
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