Book Title: Half Hour With Jain Muni
Author(s): Abdul Hamiz A Baakza
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House Bombay

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________________ Faith. Faith is the greatest force in life The tree of life bears frut only when nourished with the water of human faith The Surging Foam - Where is the joy or sadness of prosperity or penury, of happiness or misery, which are like the foam on the surface of the sea of life, born from the conflict of the surging waves of fancy and destined at last to pass into the selfsame sea at the end of that conflict ? Freedomia The freedom that soils the luminous orb of human culture must lead mankind to the abyss of degradation Birth of Poetry True poetry is not merely fine verse produced by human effort, but a sacred stream of the spirit bubbling forth from the conflict of agony and despair, rag. ing in the poet's heart! Beauty The loveliness that must rely on outward senses for its realisation is not beauty, pure and serene, but the forlorn ghost of passion and desire. Beauty finds her fulfilment as she spreads her reign in the calm serenity of human soul--the superb charm of loveliness that must be felt and realised in the quietude of

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