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by the followers of the Bhagawat Dharma like Tukaram. Faith is the basis on which the ladder of wisdom and character is to be placed to reach the Highest Place. But it is only a basis. Wisdom is supposed to be the path of beatitude by Vedantins like Shankaracharya but knowledge without action is brain without hands. Nor is the Nirvan reached by the vast, almost bewildering, mass of ritual that is performed to propitiate the stoned Gods of the temples. In its original, Jainism allows but a small part of the incumbrances that have grown upon the superstitious ignorance of the faithless followers. The celebrated Jain Acharya, Shri Kundkunda, points out three "pure" modes of worship which chiefly consist in the consecration of the soul to the way of life lived by the holy Teachers. The unpure' path of aproaching the Highest is of course image-worship of the twentyfour. But even this worship consists of very simple ritual. And simple as it is, it occupies a very
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