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line with it then the whole meaning is changed. It is this:--" When a person has killed an animal, or any living thing or has returned from an immoral house, or a vicious place, or if he has drunk wine, then he ought not to pollute the Jain temple even if he is followed by an elephant. So, in the 'case of the Swastika--if you take only the cross and side lines you cannot have the full meaning, while if the circles and crescent are added you have the whole before you. The idea is there are four grades of existence of souls in the material universe. The first is the lowest state. When the soul evolves from that state it comes to the next stage--the plant, the earth, the animal life which is lower than the human life, then evolves to the third stage, the human life. Then the fourth stage, the celestial. I use the word celestial, to mean the life of other worlds than our own. All these graduations are combinations on different scales of matter and soul, The spiritual plane is that in which the soul is entirely freed fro:n the bonds of matter. In order to reach that plane you must strive to possess the three jewels (the circles) right belief, right knowledge, right conduct. When you get these you are on the right path. Otherwise, there is no settled course for you, you are, as it were, tossed indiscriminately in a large river and do not know where you are going. If you bave possessien of the jewels your basis is sure. When you have these three things, right belief, right
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