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The Jaina Antiquary
[Vol. XVII to face the music in this world and the next. Some how or other you must get conduct out of the masses or society goes to pieces. But you can only do so through religion i. e. the organization, which can ever get conduct out of the ignorant in the way they understand.”
It is well known that reform of the individual is easy but the reform of the nation is a difficult task, one may be responsible for the act of the one but for the act of the whole, the whole must be responsible, one cannot be responsible for all, for this, unity is essential. Community work is for the whole Community, Social work is for the whole Society. Neither work for any one nor depend on any one. "A nation has to learn self govt, just as it has to learn every thing else, and nothing helps so much as to put the nation, in charge of its own destiny.
"Our community has been the blind imitators' of others, unmindful of the situation of our own country, the time, the formation, organisation and policy of the society. This has robbed us of our faculty of independent thought and action. We are here for bringing about reformation in the society, and society being comprised of individuals we should spare no pains in working for the welfare of the widows and the orphans; we should provide for the education of children, character-formation of youngmen, right use of the money of the aged and big persons and never allow them to go astray of the right path, so that they may attain salvation in the end."
He further added "The world cannot progress without 'Dharma' and for its establishment we have got to banish age-worn customs, superstition and fears of all description. This alone will place the society on a firm basis and make it immortal.”
In the end he diagnoses the real disease of the body politic when he says "The most paintul factor in our society is that we are not tolerant towards people differing from us in religion, thought and action", and exhorted the audience thus "We should appreciate and respect any one, belonging to any community who has worked for the betterment of his community in however small a degree it may be."
Coming back from Kundalpur conference while he was planning fresh fields of activities and services, Providence was planning.
