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UNREAL PURSUIT OF REALITIES.
Religion. As ever Prakriti clings to Purusha when He spurns her. H Mahomed and Mahavira get rich and splendid mosques and Mandirs, because they were possessionless and simple houseless men. Why should men vilify these heroes of all. contained nothingness by trying to give them something of our pigmy nothingness? This is the pathos; the lie of religious culture; the paradox of faith; the self-contradiction of worship. We worship A in the form and by means of non-A! In worshipping A, we worship or at least sanctify non-A. In trying to be near A by These means, we unconsciously go farther and farther from A. It is ever thus that Subtle Satan lures us away from Near God,
The thing needed and difficult is to visualise and make real and one with one's self even the most ordinary, daily repeated, and repeatedly professed elementary tenets and essential dogmas of any religion.
We follow religion Parrot-like. Our ancestors of old followed it as a seen and experienced object.
Politics. Politics is simply the science and art of managing its own internal and external communal affairs by a community, which may be simple or complex A simple community has a unity of locality, history, religion, race, tradition, custom, feelings and idcals. A complex community does not possess all these. Whether simple or complex, a political community aims at preserving the greatest possible measure of freedom of thought, speech and action of its constituent individuals and sections. It aims primarily to keep peace and order at home, and honour and safety abroad. The reign of Law among its citizens secures Peace within, the knowledge or conviction abroad that it can and shall hold its own secures honourable recognition abroad and makes it immune from any invasion or hostile or contemptible treatment.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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| SR No. | 034889 |
| Book Title | Jaina Gazette 1927 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | J L Jaini, Ajitprasad |
| Publisher | Jaina Gazettee Office |
| Publication Year | 1927 |
| Total Pages | 568 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |