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A Treatise on Jainism
your conduct i.e. make your character an ideal one, practise austerities to the best of your abilities and lead a life of the pure and noble thinking. This is the principal message of the Jain Religion. The details will be found in the following pages. It is extremely difficult to get this human existence. One should therefore shake off idleness and indolence, instil and practise religion and thereby enjoy the endless and unobstructed happiness. of the final beatitude.
It is the doctrine of Jain Philosophy that. the ultimate principle is always logical and there can be no principle devoid of logic. The Jain mode of explaining everying logically is very charming. One finds deliberative exhortations on any subject in all its facts, may they be constructive or obstructive, enlightening or destructive, consumptive, or nutritive. The main reason for this is the exquisitely beautiful system of logic and reasoning known as “Syadvad”. The principles. of Jain Philosophy are based on the theory of Syadvad. It is the best means of arriving at the truth or of ascertaining fundamental principles and it is because of this that the
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