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PUBLISHER'S NOTE "We kept engaged in accumulation as a result of which we lost every thing", voices the author his concern for the deterioration of essential Jain virtue. The truth contained in these words is beyond all contradiction. More and more did we amass possessions, more and more we went astray from the essential Jainness". We have come to such a stage that we seem to have forgotten the basic Jaina householder's conduct which was instrumental in attaining that 'Jainness'.
Generally, the people and scholars kept on searching the roots. They centred their efforts in writing and publishing dissertations and getting mundane recognitions, managing awards and rewards. Pundits and pedagogues talked much about souls. They painstakingly explained, in their lectures, common subjects of interest such as Ahimsa, donation etc. from the podium to the credulous audience and simultaneously kept on manoeuvering and accumulating all sorts of possessions and indulging in ego-gratification. Consequently, non-possession or nonattachment which is the very spirit of Jaina faith, receded to background.
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