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this movement in India. Let us have an Indian Vegeterian Federal Union and let us save
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." We are
Gentlemen, remember we are Hindus. the descendants of those who were Hindus or from whom him or himsa was du or dur, i. e., away; (him himsa and du-dur, i. e., away.) Hindus were not those who originally lived on the banks of the river Indus. Hindus were those from whom himsa was away. Let us not mis-understand words. Let us interpret them correctly. It is those men who are the slaves of taste who say that Hindus were those who lived on the banks of the Indus. We, Jains, call Hindus those from whom him or himsa is du or dur, i. e., away. And gentlemen, are we not correct? Certainly we are. Pity says we are correct. Animals cry we are correct. Let us then be what we are. Let us not be pretenders. Let us be true Hindus or Jains. The two mean the same thing. Let us advocate the cause of the noble principle of the Daya Maya Dharma, and let us proclaim from the Himalaya to Cape Comorin and from Gujerat to Behar, nay, even in foreign countries, as did the Jain Asoka, Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah! Destroy no life, injure no life, this is the supreme religion! Let us engrave in
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