Account of Jainism

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An Account of
chariot. From the fold of Jainism, no one is shut out, whatever his caste and birth may be. Thus the Jain ritual is a system of equality and a bond of brotherhood. It is a moral system being a system of inward inspiration, a system that subdues the low and ignoble in the heart of man. It is not an aimless asceticism that burns out all the man and thus empties the system of its whole content and that grows up on the soils of pessimism. Self subjection does not in Jainism mean the destruction of all the self but it is only a subjection that raises man's higher nature s'ipreme. Nor is self-conquest the end and aim of man. Truly does Shri Gunbhadra start his “ Self-discipline ” KHATIATH by telling his self“ Oh soul! greatly doest thou fear misery and long for happiness. I will tell thee the path of that gal which thou thus longest for, " It should be also remember ed that Jainism is a true moral philosophy on another ground, although it is suspected