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hearts of the most righteous as well as the most wicked people. The conscious soul is present in all, high and low, touchable and untouchable, lepers and crippled, healthy and unhealthy, and inspires all without any distinction.
From his words and his deeds, he showed to the world that it was a sin to wash anything out of living existence. He said “A religion, which gives shelter to any sort of inequality, can never do good to any nation. Do not think, therefore, ill of others. Help them instead as far as you can; and if you can not do even so much, at least watch their condition patiently; sympathise with them, and abstain from causing any injury to them. Further with the help of your spiritual light, try to raise them up without taking into consideration the nature of their thoughts, however mean they might be ".
Thus, by means of his instructions, Lord Mahavira established the omnipresence of religion. He called only that religion to be religion which all people loved-be they philosophers, devotees, sinners or sages, poor or rich.
His main object was that the message of truth should reach every corner of this earth; that the suffering humanity should get supreme bliss under the cool shade of Truth; that the troubles and miseries, jealousy and animosity should disappear from this world; that Ahimsa ( the principle of non violence to all living beings ) should reign supreme on this earth; that mercy should inspire every heart; that people should learn how to do good to others, how to show true love to others and, in the end, how to proceed on the high-way of salvation, after acquiring all these means. He,
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