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How to study Jaina Philosophy
call them, leading-strings for the intellect, the progress of the ordinary scientific student is made tolerably easy." This is the scientific method of study. Never in this method is brought into prominence the necessity of psychological and ethical improvement of the mind which wishes to study the great problems of life and the universe. Self-restrain, the first step is acquiring true knowledge sacrifice of the cherished habits of mind, giving up of Drishti-raga, as we Jainas call it, which are in our opinion the sine qua non of full and clear understanding of the self and the non self are seldom taken into consideration in the Western method of thinking.
This vice of popular method of thinking is especially apparent in religious propagandists and political leaders. Their idols symbolized in certain words remain always unflinching, Atheism, Fatherhood of God.
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