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SANATANA JAINA.
I do not expect you to execute this improvement or to surrender that prejudice in my time but at any rate it shall not be my fault in the improvement remains unknown or rejected. There shall be one man at least, who has surrendered the prejudice, and who does not hide that fact."
Mr. John Morley.
VOL. IV. BOMBAY, DEC.-JAN.-FEB.:1908. No. V-VI-VII.
NIRVANA.
(BY JAGAT PRASAD M. A., B. Sc.,)
PERHAPS the commonest feature of all religions is belief in a future state of bliss, promised to its adherents far surpassing everything attainoble in this world. The conception of this blissful state varies from religion to religion, according to the surroundings of the founder, and more or less represents, in an idealised form, what most delightest the people, among whom the religion sprung up, here on earth. At one time, the savage tribes of Northern Europe, whose life-long business was to fight during the day, And drink in the evening conceived of a heavcu where the heroes fought
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splendiply with terrible weapons, and had plenty of wine to drink when they retired for the night's rest. The Hebrews, who realised the calm happiness springing from domestic virtues and holiness hoped to meet in heaven all whom they loved on earth, and lived in eternal bliss and purity. The sensitive and passionate Arabs, glowing with poetic fire, would only be satisfied with a heaven where cool breezes blow through shady groves, and refreshing springs bound and sparkle, and beautiful houris attend on the residents. And the Indian sage, more impressed by the sorrows, than by the
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