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or ca. 51-42-74 72 . reason mere reports should do, I think by some secret appointment of heaven or say Karm is, we embraced in our names und at our first meeting which was at the first Social gather. ing in 1910, we found ourseljes so mutually taken with one another, say acquainted and so endeared between ourselves that thenceforward nothing was so near to us as one another. Differences were discarded, prejudices were sunk, and grades of position were merged and there remained Self and nothing but Self.
Thus younger generation, guided by the older generation, proceeds forward with rapidity and easiness and I hope there are signs of actual progress in the right direction in point of unity, co-operation and soundness of work, unless many disturbances quite characteristic of our Jain Community do not come in numbers and un-nerve the whole balance. Last year we had many circumstances productive of such disturbances. Circumstances are like clouds, continually gathering and bursting. While we are laughing and enjoying, the seed of some trouble is put into the wide arable land of eventswhile we are laughing, it sprouts, it grows. and suddenly bears a poison fruit, which we must pluck. Hence in the name of Brotherhood, we should earnestly request the elder members of our community to try their best with sincer 3 feelings to put a stop to such disturbances between one sect and another, between its portion and a portion, so that the younger generation may not have any bad precedents and tendency to go astray from the right path of co-operation. I need not remind you of the well-known fact that United we stand and divided we fall."
By such co-operative movements we shall secure sympathy, admiration and kindness of others in moulding monuments of past as well as present Jain greatness and be in a position to show to the world that we are gifted with the greatest kind of religion, philosophy, wisdom and literature.
