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[ Religious Instructions of the Lord
Truth, Non-violence and Universal Brotherhood in the world and its echo is still resounding in the air. The method of his preaching was such as enabled every living being to break through the bondage of karmas. No one, who listened to the words of the Lord with a pure heart, could help himself from becoming his follower. Even people, whose hearts wers not pure, tried to wash away their filth in this light. To cut short, even the antagonists of the Lord found peace and solace in his words, for his words entered their hearts and helped them in washing them clean of the evil and sin that had made them filthy. If, however, a man dissented from him and disregarded him, he cherished the same love for him as he cherished for the man who had faith in him and moulded his life according to his teachings.
Lord Mahavira did not care for increasing the number of his followers, for we know that at one time it was far less than that of Goshala's followers. His object was to make a strong revolution, a revolution which was quite new to this world. He wanted to put a full stop to the corruption of this world and to preach the principle of spiritual development on the basis of equality of all. India showed a specimen of this peace-ful revolution in a few months of the year 1930 A.D. This kind of peaceful revolution has got a sort of supernatural power behind it. All the political power dwindles into nothingness before its weakest devotee. We cannot even imagine of the purity and strength of soul, of the peace, happiness and humanitarianism of our country-men at the time when this peaceful revolution. must have been in its prime; only this much we know that that peaceful religious Revolution started by the Lord had endless supernatural
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