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In sincerity his religeousity.
AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. service ; emotion galvanizes the cold idea into life and activity. It makes it alive and dynamic. It is the feeling after truth that makes the scientists experiment with dangerous chemicals; it is the feeling with the helpless millions suffering under various organic maladies, that actuates the physician to gladly risk his life for a new discovery. The man who plunges deep into the surging waters of a gurgling rivulet to save his drowning fellow man, must have felt, nay sensed something beyond the body. From all these it is apparent that a service, whatsoever form it may take, is not born of any social ceremonialism. It is bora of the internal and moral habit which is seated in the will and the heart. And herein lies the religiousity of the services we have enumerated herein before.
Now such being the psychology under lying the cultivation of Punya exhibiting itself as it does in the various forms of services rendered, as detailed in the above, with all the sincerity of the will and the heart one could command, it is natural that these virtuous acts, punya, should not only clarify
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