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Jain Conference Herald.
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Readers! conscience is only another name of the spirit within who tells us to follow the right path. Let this be our true friend and, I am sure, we will never repent. If we do not do anything wrong our actions will be termed "good" and if we sow in this life the seeds of. "good" we are sure to reap "good" at the harvest time. It may be in this or after life.
I should like to impress that man is such a strange creature that there is nothing on the face of the earth which he cannot do. Have only the strong will to say that "I shall find a way or make it." Can we then not be happy if we really desire to be so? A learned man has said "What you wish to be that you are, for such is the force of our will, joined to the supreme, that whatever we wish to be seriously and with a true intention, that we become." If I were to talk of the miraculous powers of the Jain Sadhoos and Moonees, the so-called newly enlightened people will hardly believe them and at least they will reverence them nnder the name of myths and the Sadhoos as mythical personages. But Oh readers! it is more than certain now that to a strong will nothing is impossible. Spiritual education, I believe, was at the zenith in old times of which India boasts truly. Sciences of will-power which go by the modern names of mesmerism, hypnotism, telepathy & demonstrate what a soul is capable of doing. Can you believe a weight of 1000 lbs to be raised up by a mere look at it? Surely a hypnotist can perform such a miraculous feat. The powers of soul are infinite and it is only necessary that we should take up its study more seriously.
Our first object must be to make the most and best of ourselves. Who does not wish to be a great man? A great man, as sail above, by one's power of will, one can become. But what constitutes a great man? A man is not great because he has got riches, nor is he great because he is powerful, nor can he be great of his high position or birth. Thus wealthy persons or crowned heads or even learned persons are not great by reason of their wealth or high birth or intellectual powers. Those who live for others can only be enlisted as "great men." They can be found in any rank or class. Sympathy or fellow-feeling is a very important factor to constitute a great man. Students of Mathematics know it well that if one of the factors which make up a product is zero, the whole product is nil. Similarly where sympathy is nil, the product viz. greatness in man is nil. Greatness, I should say, is not the monopoly
