Jain Journal 1972 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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This philosophy gives a sanctity to life and its preservation. This sanctity of life, it insists, is the highest religion-the only evolution.
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Somewhere, it believes, the balance has been broken and this has led to the pain of life, and until the balance be again restored it will continue measuring wrongly, and pain will persist.
For the threads of life, it believes, run from the lowest to the highest, and when the meshes are broken, chaos rushes in to enlarge the break.
One might conjecture that it was through this one broken strand of life that matter took possession of soul, and, till the web has been made one and whole again, the struggle of what we know as mortal existence must continue.
This philosophy is optimistic: for it believes, too, that in the end, right, that is, life, soul, spirit, must triumph over matter; for once consciousness is restored to life in the form of right knowledge, matter has to longer any power over the soul.
Reprinted from Elizabeth Sharpe, The Great Cremation Ground (Mahasmasana), Luzac & Co. London, 1938.