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Gyandas Jain
Christians is known as the Pope. Europe has not been able to get rid of his thraldom upto the present day. The tyranny of these religious heads has been as relentless in India as in any other part of the world. The root cause of this injustice has been ignorance. With the rise. in the power and influence of these heads, they so order things that no one should study and if some one does so, he should not acquire the real insight into the field of knowledge. They consider that they can. thrive and revel only on ignorance of the people who on getting welread would pick holes in their conduct and their notions. That is why they seek to keep all the branches of learning shut away from other people.
GYANDAS JAIN
It is this religious thraldom that has caused India to lose her freedom, that has defrauded her of the sweet fragrance of the real 'Dharma' and that has plunged her into the meshes of new faiths andx creeds." [Agnan Timir Bhaskar, P. 24.]
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"In India so many started their own new creeds that the intellect of the Arya' people got blunt and confounded and they are. sinking into the abysmal waters of Mithyatva' with their minds
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X What a forceful and fearless comment on the religious conditions by an ideal religious leader! We need the help of a 'Guru' even in learning how to read and write. Progress, on the thorny way of Dharma' is however impossible without the watchful and sympathetic guidance of a Guru. But when blind. faith prevails, the 'Gurus' become selfish and sensuous and the situation becomes exactly what the Acharya has depicted.
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