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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXII, No. 3 January 1998
common heritage of Humanity. If we only could shake off our respective egotisms and deficiencies we may yet hope to contribute to the general progress of mankind.
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The Universal must be made real to us and cease to be a mere logical abstraction. Knowledge must lead to salvation as it was hoped by man from the beginning of history. We are all threatened to-day with extinction if we perversely pursue the path of violence. Warning is coming daily from master spirits of the East and the West and we must follow them or perish. In India from the age of Mahavira and Buddha to that of Rabindranath and Gandhi it has been shown that Non-violence alone leads to the permanent solution of the troubles of all beings. May we, with the blessings and practical examples of our Seers, serve the cause of World Peace.
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