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महाराज के ऊपर पत्र लिखकर अपने पूर्व के गलत विच बदलकर अपनी भूल जाहिर की है, वे इस तरह लिखते हैं ।
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
"I found at once that the practical religion of the Jains was one worthy of all commendation and I have since regretted that I stigmatized the Jain religion as insisting on denying God, worshipping man, and nourishing vermin as its chief tenets without giving the regard to the wonderful effect this religon has on the character and morality of the people. But as is often the case, a close acquaintance with a religion brings out its good side and creates a much more favourable opinion of it as a whole than can be obtained by a merely objective literary acquaintance. As to the literature, this is a matter apart from religion, and I suppose that what I had in mind was the absence in Jain literature of any outstandig literary production which could be compared with Brahminism-with the Githagovinda or the Bhagwatgita or in Buddhism with the Dhammapada or for as purely literary works the Jain stories and didactic material seem
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