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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
darshana) into the underlying realities of
ideas and ideals. But as the present treatise The Jain is but a stepping-stone to have a bit clearer metaphysics is the basis vision into the metaphysics of ideas and of the Jain moral philo.
ideals lying hidden in the rich and almost sophy.
inexhaustible mines of the Jain literature and philosophy; nay as it is only an epitome faithfully and consistently giving, in the briefest manner possible, a general idea of the Jain epistemology, ontology and theology on the principles of which, the whole moral code of the Jains is formulated for our right conduct in the attainment of the true Self-Rule or Swaraj, pure and simple, we must refrain, for the present, from entering upon a more detailed enquiry into the subtlty of the still deeper truths which lie veiled under the phenomenology of the organic energetics of 158 kinds as detailed in the foregoing pages, and pass, from the natural man who has been continuously forging fresh links to the chain of bondages by yielding to the solicitations of lower nature, on to the consideration of the moral man' whose life has been a constant endeavour to shake off the guilded shams of the senses,
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