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PAPA, VICE OR SIN.
different light. Of course we must agree to differ, and when we do so, we must bear and forbear. But when definite charges are laid at the door of a creed or faith, the exponents of the same ought, as in duty bound, to examine the same and see if they can explain the issues in question. In one of her latest issues The Heart of Jainism, Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson made out a charge that the Jain conception of Papa, though differing as it does from the western conception, is in fact ceremonial rather than moral." This is no doubt a very serious charge that can be levelled against any school of thought and culture. which has a definite system of moral code as the legitimate outcome of the most subtle metaphysical conclusions.
The observances and ethical disciplines as enjoined in the moral code of the Jains seem to her to lack in moral and religious character. Others also think they are more externals, husks, matters of minor or no importance and as such should be stripped off, if anyone wished to get straight to the kernel. Consistently with this view, there
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