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subordinate part in the system of Jain practi. ces, which are more
A SCHOOL OF ETHICS than a system of ritual. Everything is for the development, the purification and the freeing of one's own self. There is no dependence on any power beyond that which every one may lay his hands to. There is no favour sought, no fear entertained but that which is ons's due, due by one's own good or bad actions. The Karman, though powerful as long as one is in its clutches, can be torn into tatters by any; only he must bear and forbear. The veil of bandage can be removed, however thick and heavy it may be, by any soul, however weak it may look; only it must take the tools suited to the work. And those tools are offered to all without any expectation in return. There is no son of God, through whom the soul must seek to be saved; there is no prophet commanding the devoted मामेव Tu as from the coachman's box of a warrior's
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