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But here is something different and something refreshing. Kavi Srimad Rajchandra, whose birth centenary we are celebrating this year, does not subscribe to the view of the samanvayavādins. He says : Prophets may be different at different ages but for that paths cannot be different. It is one and the same. And this is one which removes rāga (love or attachment), dveşa (hatred) and ajñāna (ignorance). Really speaking these are the three principal knots of bondage that bind the soul, and if one can cut them out, he is free. He may belong to any caste or creed but, if he is desirous of his own liberation he has no other alternative but to cut these three principal knots of bondage. Thus paths are not different as the samanyayavādins say ; it is one and the same.
Herein lies the greatness of Jainism. It does not want any one to become a Jaina but what it enjoins is this : whatever he may be, he should strive to win over rāga, dveşa and ajñāna, the three principal knots of bondage, and be perfect. Thus he will follow the universal path of the Jina who himself is perfection embodied and who by his own effort has destroyed the three knots of bondage, viz., rāga, dveşa and ajñāna.
Let the path of the Jina show us light.
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