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COMPENDIUM OF JAINISM सत्वेषु मैत्री, गुणिषु प्रमोदं, विलष्टेषु जीवेषु कृपापरत्वम् । माध्यस्थभावं विपरीत वृत्तौ सदा ममात्मा विदधातु देव ।
“O Lord, grant me ever and annon affection towards all living beings, joyful-respect towards the virtuous compassion and sympathy for the afflicted and tolerance towards the perverted and the ill-behaved.”
The kinship and friendship which Jainism wants to establish transcends all barriers of castes and creeds, of climes and countries. In the words of Mrs. Annie Besant, the message of Jainism to humanity is “Peace between man and man, peace between man and animal, peace everywhere and in all things, a perfect brotherhood of all that lives,"16
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