Jain Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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Even the meanest of mankind" gets himself photographed and, poor man, thinks that he will go down to prosperity! And yet even sience fails and after some time the "presentment" disappears and the card board only remains! No. Such 'presentments,' such photographs of the body will never avail, be of any utility to the people of Hindusthan. tographs of some of the foremost men of the day are being hawked about in the streets. They are the photos only of the bodies of these men. Has any body ever taken care to photograph the hearts, the minds, the souls of these great men? It is with shame that I say that the sons of India have disgraced themselves by their lethargy in this department of literature. But luckily for mankind some of the noble "minds", remembering that no prophet is honoured in his country, take care to leave behind them in manuscript form the choicest of their matured thoughts and thus confer an inestimable boon on their kind. Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi was one of such minds. Luckily for his community and countrymen in general he has written out many of the important discourses delivered by him in India, England and America. It is six years now since his brief but brilliant career came prematurely to a close, and during this period no attempt has been made by any of his followers or colleagues to place the mind of the man before the public, to give a succient idea as to what he did in England and America, in what diverse ways he rerdered important services to our cause and religion by preaching the sublime principles of Jainism, not only in his mother
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