Immortality and Joy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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PREFACE.
No preface is nooded for a short article like the one now being placed in the reader's hands, but it is necessary to say that its title refers back to a small pamphlet, publishod a fow years ago under the title of the Gospel of Immortality, the main topics of which have since been thoroughly reconsidered and incorporated in my work on comparative Religion, entitled the Key of Knowledge. As the prosent articla conveys the message of the Creed of Tirthamkaras, that 'is, Jainism, which enables the soul to acquire everlasting happiness and dominion over death, it is the rightful successor to the work alluded to. Hence its nama--the Gospel of Immortality and Joy.
It will also not be out of place here to state that a portion of the article has already appeared in the Special Number of the Digambar Jain for 1918-19, for which it, was oririnally written. It has now been revised and enlarged is the request of the Jain Sabha, Simli, to be distributed a:nyuz the visitors on the occasion of the Consecration of their new Temple at the summer capital of India.
HARIO!: Yth V., 379.
C.R. JAIN