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in the name of Religion ?. He has read in his history books, lurid accounts of persecution and atrocities by religious fanatics in all parts of the world. He is fully conscious that it is might, and not right, that rules' the world. He sees the truthful and the just belaboured by the selfish and the unscrupulous and no gods rush down to their rescue in their heavenly chariots as one is told in legends. How can he then believe that "God is in His heaven-all's right with the world ? He sees for himself that all's wrong with the world and he doubts whether there is a God in heaven or anywhere and if He exists, whether He is as Omnipotent as they make Him out to be.
Jain philosophy, with its theory of karma can explain to him that sufferings—of an individual or a nation or a race - are the result of misdeeds of the past, that there is a casual relationship between the woes of this life and the evil done during an earlier incarnation, and so he cannot maintain that there is no justice in the world. As for religious persecutions that fill · him with revulsion, the tolerance and broad mindedness that Jain philosophy emphasises, might persuade him to modify his outlook on religion. Amity and Appreciation would not be incomprehensible to him, for youth is not
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