Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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THE JAINA GAZETTE
other partner's joy also should be ended, despite the promise " for better, for worse."
It is equally bad that because of the affliction-especially if it is no fault of the sufferer's-one should be left uncared for and unprotected and left unprovided while the other partner goes off and marries some one else.
I believe that these proposed new laws in Czcho Slovakia represent the change of thought which is gradually coming over the civilised world. They are part of a march against sentiments which preserves archaic and unjust laws that letter the progress of humanity.
We have increased our comforts and, allowed our minds to become comfortable. Now we find there is something wrong. For a few people our comfort is worse than the old crudity.
Mothers of ancient Sparta used to put their very young children on a roof, and if they were not strong enough to hold on they had not to go on with the torment of living a weakling's life. Although the trial was ridiculous the principle was sensible.
One great fault can be found, however, with all this insistence on bodily health. To-day the intellect rules : a man with a sound brain and a poor body can be happy and powerful.
Some of your greatest figures—politicians, writers, and business men are hopeless cripples. If it were still a case of hunting for food and fighting for life, history's list of leaders would be very different.
When brain is so important then, we must use our brain in setting problems like the acute ones just set before the world by this enterprising post-war State.
Feeling must take a poor third plane, for what we feel seldom that being felt by the victim. Sentiment must be forgotten and the doors opened to the reforms which complex civilisation has obviously made necessary.
But all the right to decide in every case, must be reserved very strictly to the person concerned. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat