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JANUARY, 1970
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The Jaina religion agregate is the model of that dignity that bespeaks the worth and greatness of its nature. In a mixed crowd of good and evil, the Jaina does not speak due to his canonical belief that his portion of truth will be misunderstood. But the one Westerner who persists through to the one Jaina finds the pure gold of person-to-person communication. Total Non-injury : Before sun and moon were visible in the sky, the Jaina religion took its stand for non-injury to all living beings. So tradition expresses the eternal nature of Jaina Ahimsā. To kill, to injure, to degrade, any living being is the vilest crime. For like you and me, all living beings have souls. Vegetarianism follows as a practical by-product of the total Ahimsā. From the belief that the human mind cannot reach higher, the Jaina religion offers its own distinctive and total Ahimsā, non-injury to all living beings.
Ahimsā paramo dharmah-Non-injury is the highest religion.
Now I end the answers to the questions about Jainism.
Obeisance to the twenty-second Jaina teacher, conqueror of the beginningless cycle of births and deaths, O Pure Soul without a body, the Lord Aristanemi.
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