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prophets who have left their sublime teachings as our heritage. We carry it on our shoulder. It means we carry these teachings on our shoulders and practise them every day. It is a syinbol of your willingness to practise and obey the teachings given us by our prophets.
There is another symbol of the Jains, and that is the picture pf the elephant and the seven blind man. The Jains have many lecture halls in all parts of India. In towns and cities where numbers of the Jains are living they build balls for the teinporary residence of Monks who go about teaching, On the walls of those bouses you will find several Pictures; one is the sawe as that on iny class catd. When a sinall boy about eight years old, I was accustomed to attend with my father the sermons of the Jain inonks who visited our town from tiine to time in those days. The serinons were delivered in the lecture hall built especially by our community. On one occasion we went to the ball balf an hour earlier than usual, which gave me ample time to look around, which I did with much interest and some curiosity at the paintings on the walls, one picture in particular iinpressed ine and interested me more than all the others. It was a picture of a man sus pended in the middle of a well by holding on to a branch of a tree which grew by the side of the well (many of you will recognize this picture as the same
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