Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1905 Book 01

SR No.: 536501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gulabchand Dhadda
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
Publication Year: 1905
Total Pages: 452
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India
File Size: 13 MB

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The Problem of the day.
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a body compose what we call our Conference. It carries the sum total of our individual intelligence and powers. Thus the opinion of our Conference ought to carry among us the greatest weight and highest value. We must therefore secure the long life of our Conference, put its resolutions into forces, further its objects, maintain its organs and support its feeders. Thus Conference furnishes us the first requisite of the right solution of our problem.
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The second requisite of our success depends on our choosing leaders able to guide and direct us. To be a leader is a task fraught with heavy responsibilities and onerous duties as well as it carries with it a rare honour and a dignified position. As the ideas, ways and manners of leaders are to be reflected and impressed on those that are to be led, the former ought to be men of sterling virtues, high morals, chaste thoughts and noble deeds. A leader can successfully discharge the duties of his eminent position if his mind and heart work in unison. He must be a man of vast resources, the faculties of his mind must be fully developed and he ought to be well up in resorting to personation, reasoning, threat, circumspection presence of mind and such other arts and means as the circumstances of the case may require. He can keep up his position till he works disinterestedly, impartially and justly. A leader is virtually an uncrowned king of those that follow him so long as he possesses their love, good-will and sympathy. The helm of the ship of our Conference ought to be put under the care of such ideal leaders. It is an apt remark that the present leaders of our Conference are the best under the circumstances: they being the gems and pearls of the Jain Community. It is clear that leaders have to make certain sacrifices without the hope of any reward, return or remuneration. We shall gain our point provided we never accept as our leaders persons who are fortune-hunters, fame-seekers, vain talkers, time-servers or worshippers of simple honour. A leader of thousands and millions knows that his position is not a bed of roses without thorns. He starts in his career as such with a clear presumption of meeting difficulties in his way but he always holds himself in readiness to cope with such obstacles and The hitches without loosing his temper, senses and control over mind. want of such leaders, as we knów, has created factions, dissensions and discontent at certain places and in some bodies. The office of leadership ought neither be life-long nor hereditary. It ought to be conferred on those that actively and independently work as such.
A leader ought to identify himself with the duty he undertakes to discharge. Among the duties and responsibilities of a leader may be mentioned the following:-infusion of activity; vigour and life; introduction of wholesome reforms and changes; repressions of evils wrongs and abuses; due punishment of wrong-doers and rule-breakers and promotion of peace and prosperity among those that are put under his lead.
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