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RELIGION AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION 51
The person who has attained occult powers is not like the mediums in this country: if you put any question to him he will solve it without any hesitation, and will describe a distant object without going into a trance condition.
Such is the power of concentration and such are the results obtained by means of it by Yogis in India ; and if the people of the West were to free themselves from some of their fashionable disabilities. I am sure they could practically see the truth of these things.--V. R. Gandhi.
RELIGION AND COMPARATIVE
RELIGION.* Adi Purushya Adisha Jina Adi Subidhi Karatara : Dharma Dhurandara Parama Guru, Namahun Adi Avatara!
(Tr. To the first Perfect Man, the Lord of the Conquerors, the first Most Excellent Arranger of things,
The Supporter of Dharma, the Supreme Teacher, Salutation 1]
Brethren and Sisters, or as you have it in the West, Ladies and Gentlemen :- 1 am, indeed, happy to have this opportunity of addressing the present distinguished company on the subject of Religion and Comparative Religion, and would like to begin by thanking our worthy friend Dr. Alberto Poggi who has kindly made the necessary arrangements for this lecture.
Before proceeding any further, I think, I ought to give you the explanation of the salutation which I offered in the Sanskrit language to the Jaina Divinity at the commencement of my speech, It is a rule with us Jainas that we always begin our religious discourses with a salutation to some form of Divinity Manifest, that is to say to one of the great Teachers of mankind who attained Divine Perfection and who taught the path of its attainment to others. The object of the salutation is to purify the mind of the
A lecture delivered by Mr. Champat Rai Jain, Bar-at-Law at Genova (Italy) on the 6th January, 1927. 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 |