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JAINISM : A WAY OF LIFE
Shri B. P. WADIA
If one is always humble, steady, free from curiosity and deceit; if he abuses nought; if he holds not to his wrath; if he listens to friendly advice; if he is not proud of his learning; if he finds no fault with any or ought; if he is patient with friends; if he speaks well even of a vad friend when he is absent; if he abstains from quarrels; if he is polite, gracious, calm and endeavours to gain cnlightenment-then he is named “the well-behaved”.
-Uttaradhyayana Sutra
The two wars have made the world very different. Those of us who lived and laboured before 1914 and after 1918 saw a great change in human outlook. With the end of the second war a different kind of world emerged in which the human individual has been deprived of his initiative to a very great extent. Kari Capek's visionary robot of the twenties is now strutting on the world stage. Men are not able to call their souls their own; they are made to think along lines drawn for them; they are invited to feel and use emotions for the glory of their state; the citizen in many countries exists for the benefit of his own government and his personal life is greatly narrowed and restricted. Hitler, who is reported to have committed suicide after his defeat, seems to have emerged a victor. Hitlerism is to the fore in the countries which won the war. Russia's roots in totalitarian soil have gained strength. The concept of the Welfare State is founded upon the idea that what is
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