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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
Every case of moral awakening is therefore Ethical also a case of intellectual awakening; for discipline brings in the apprehension of truth does not remain
a mere matter of intellect, or job of head; but it has other far-reaching consequences as it rouses the emotions, higher or lower, and demands expression through them in conduct or in life. "The opinion we entertain as to man's life as a whole and its relation at large must influence our practice of the art of life."
harmony and reasonable sweetness in practice.
If this be the relation between 'the theory of life' and 'the art of life.' and if theory moulds the practice, as is evidenced by the history of mankind, we may easily surmise the nature of the ethical discipline which will necessarily follow from the subtle and splendid metaphysical speculations of the Jains, we have discussed before. For the ethical discipline is nothing but the formulation of the principles in accordance and in conformity with the metaphysical speculation, which will bring order, coherence, and unity in our practice and thereby help us in the achievement of the Summum Bonum, we have in view. And the art of life and its principles
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