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Shree Atmramji and his Mission
Thus changes and alterations in the original texts are natural and Jainism cannot be an exceptio: from this Natural Law. Not
only interpretations differ but the wordings have also to vary. Circumstances of life change, and there is again hard struggle between evil and good. A revolution of ideas takes place. A high personage appears, the Mahatma (great Soul ) of the time. He goes about studying the people and the changed circumstances, feels very strongiy for the poor condition of the worldly souls of his time, sets in an example before them how to improve, prosper and make progress. His insight into the nature of things, his developed
culture, and his keen observations enable him to look far beyond the horizon of the ordinary people of his time. Though within the atmosphere of the men of his age, his mind soars high and his intellectual breathing is in higher plane of his own which is purer and nobler. The gross matter around him cannot touch him. Peolpe may misunderstand him, try to persecute him and torment him, but he is firmu, resolute in his inlentions and resolutions, calm and quiet under all cicumstances which his opponents think are adverse to him.
Lives of these Mahatmas all remind us that we can also live better and bappier lives, if we earnestly make an attempt to follow their noble examples. It is, therefore, a duty of grateful people to arrange for some celebrations in honour of such Mahatmas to remember the foot-prints that they have left for our guidance to follow the
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