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darkness and greatest help and efforts with the liberal spirit of universal are needed still in the propaganda love 80 nobly preached by Lord of spreading education in every Mahavir, we should regard each and village, town city or nook and corner every creature in the world as our of India.
own self and do for it wbat we do This is a huge task but not im---
for our ownself.
Brothers realize this great truth possible, and it can be successfully
in practice, realize at least in the accomplished if every community
spreading of education, spread :edutakes up into its hands the task of
cation amongst all without distinction educating its own people, or if the
of caste, colour, creed, or sect, give Government makes education free,
knowledge to all without any price or if liberal philonthrophists, possessed
and then remember that such humanawith means decide to contribute libe
tarian who will sacrifice his money, rally in this noble cause of giving
talents or strength in such & noble knowledge to the ignorant. Now
cause, he shall get a thousandfold taking the Jains in particular I
of what he gives in the selfless cause Agsure you that our community is from the sphere of the Invisible. The very backward in receiving high work is not very difficult and the education.
fruits would not be far, if the rich Liberal gentlemen of the Jain Jains of India grasp this eminent community have already realized idea of spreading the cause of religion this necessity and during the course through education. The rich and of a few years, we see that Boarding the educated need to unite the Schools are provided to Jain students attributes of each, the first his wealth in every large city in India, free and the second his intellect and a Jain High schools are already establi- great service can be rendered to shed and Widous homes and indu- humanity. strial homes are provided at some After solving the first question places: but we can not stop there and proving by facts that India is and great many things most useful still greatly backwards in education : to the uplift of the community in I shall go on with the second question. the rank of other nations are still "whether the education that we have badly needed and any delay that is
received has made us independent and made in providing for these necessities happy and if not why is it 80 ?" of the time, not only hinders our The solution of this question is progress but throws us back. It is very painful to every lover of humanity. now high time that all the Jains It has been the cause of disappointshould in practice forget the spirit ment or convulsion to many of the of being born Swetambers, or Digam- promising young men of our country. bars or Sthan kvasis should live above One illustration will solve the question this little differance in rituals and for you.
