Historical Facts About Jainism

Author(s): Lala Lajpatrai
Publisher: Jain Associations of India Mumbai

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are perfect faith, perfect knowledge and perfect conduct and other attributes of god described in Jain Scriptures he is not God. The European Committee of Religions does not admit even the soul as distinct froni body and is akin to the Atheistic School of Charvaka. The best and most advanced man of the Committee can never be called God. There cannot therefore be any comparison between the liuropean Religious Committee and the Jain religion. Besidessuch vague allusions are prone to raise considerable doubts and suspicions in the minds of unwary and simple people about the purity and holiness of the Jain religion, which an impartial historian would have refrained from (loing.
AHIMSA. Then you proceed to discuss tlie great principle of Ahimsa. You call the same the greatest moral doctrine of the Jains, but unnecessarily disparage it alleging that the same has been carried to extrenie.4: Now many thinkers of tlie world join in praising the doctrine and its beneficial effects on mankind and consider it a solution of the complex problem as to how the Society can live in peace.44 You however say in a garbled form, "according to some, to be Jain is first rate cowardice"-although you in the same breath admit that the learned Jains do not think it sin to fight in religious battles or consider punishing others as opposed to their religion.45