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Why should you read and study philosophy if you refuse to change and want to remain a learned fool? Forms and ceremonies have no value if you love them for their own sake. Religion itself is a means to an end, and not an end in itself He is therefore sparing in the use of Jain terminology. His discourses are based upon the Syadavada or Jain theory of Relativity, which has a wider connotation and has no smell of any 'ism' His philosophy is broad-based upon human values It wonderfully appeals to all, Jain oi Gentile Simple truths, he preaches and makes the pills palatable He addresses his audience as if he addresses his friends He takes them into his confidence by an occasional inquiring look at someone in the audience to elicit 'Yes' or 'No' to some interesting point. He is conscious of his ethical aim, but he does not make his people feel it He is a preacher, but he is not preachy He himself says, "I do not want to teach people their duties or any doctrine of religion I want to arouse them from their complacencies, to stir their hearts, to vivify their imagination, to bring them out from their little selves to the Higher, of which they are capable"
He wants us to take religion, not with a long face but with a sense of spiritual adventure. "LIVE LIFE” that's all That is the substance of all his teaching Live it nobly, wholly, powerfully keeping the goal in view If you have no goal in life, if you have no vision of the moral beauty which shines upon the
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