Gandhi And Jainism

Author(s): Shugan C Jain
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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"..the child learns in after what it does in its first five years, The education of the child begins with conception. The physical and mental states of the parents at the moment of conception are reproduced in the baby. Then during pregnancy it continues to be affected by the mother's moods, desires, and temperaments, as also by her way of life. After birth the child imitates the parents, and for a considerable number of years entirely depends on them for its growth"
Ibid, page 33
Ibid, page 42
Ibid, page 28
Ibid, page 39 "A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right
to receive it, is a purest type of repentance"
M. K. Gandhi, Harijan, 17-8-1934, p.213, cited in R. K. Prabhu& U. R. Rao, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi (Ahmedabad: NavajivanMudranalaya, 1966, in soft copy), p.88
Ibid, page 35-36
a Jain monk coming from Modh community and spiritual advisor of Gandhi's family
Ibid, page 44
Gita, p. 187,verse III.33
Gujarat population", in Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, vol.9, part-1 (Printed at the Govt. Central Press, 1884), p.70; "Kathiawara population", Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, vol.8, (Printed at the Govt. Central Press, 1884), p.147; also in Stephen N. Hay, "Jain Influences on Gandhi's Early Thought", in S. N. Ray, ed., Gandhi India and The World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1970), p.30 "By the twelfth century A.D. Jainism had become the dominant faith in the commercially oriented region of Gujarat. From the sixteenth century onwards, the bhakti movement of Vallabhacharya won many converts in Gujarat, but Jainism remained the prominent faith in the Baniya community. Thus, the very detailed Bombay Gazetteer of 1884 showed JainBaniyas outnumbering Vaishnava ones by a ratio of three to two, both in Gujarat as a whole (334,000 to 213,000) and in Kathiawar (96,150 to 63,400). As of the 1880's, the gazetteer tells us, these two
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