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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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SAINT MIRA
It is a relief to know that in the midst of the confusion in which East and West have been thrown, there are a few thoughtful men and women who turn to a new moral affirmation of life and a new spiritual integration, as the hope of the coming days.
Sometime ago, an eminent psycho-analyist, Carl Jung,-made the following significant statement :
I have treated hundreds of patients, the larger number being Protestants, a smaller number Jews, and not more than five or six believing Catholics. Among all my patients in the second half of my life, there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that everyone of them fell ill, because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers; and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
And a statement, cqually significant, was made by an eminent scientist,----Sir James Jeans. He said :
To-day there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality :
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