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J. S. Conference Herald.
April.
people ought to obey the commands, accept the judgments, adopt the decisions, follow the suggestions and observe the directions of their worthy leaders whose constant thought is the good of the people.
The last but not of least importance is the third requisite to solve our problem. It is our 'cordial co-operation without which the fabric of the Conference will fall to the ground and the work of our leaders will come to naught. Take away this factor and the solution of our problem will hang in the air. Without it everything at best 'ends in thought or is realised in imagination. If we have a mind to keep pace with progress and civilization, if we at all cared to secure our good here and hereafter and if we desire to improve our present miserable lot, it is our bounden duty to heartily co-operate and walk hand in hand with the movement of our Conference and its leaders. We ought to contribute our mite towards the stability and permanency of our Conference in the shape of physical, mental and monetary aids. Leaders think, Conference resolves and we consent and put those resolutions into practice. Our position is not that of on-lookers or hearers. We are actively to work with our
eaders. Without us Conference is a meaningless working. We in a body are Conference and we individually are its limbs or parts. Thus we are Conference and Conference is we. Apart from us Conference is a non-entity. Every Jain therefore ought to style himself as a part of the Conference. He ought to be inspired spontaneously with the spirit of looking upon Conference as "my Conference." What is chiefly aiined at is that a spirit ought to flood the heart and pervade the nerves of every Jain if the Jains and Jainism are destined to rise in the near future. With this spirit the solution of our problem is like a child's play and the work of very little time. Without it, it shall liave to wait for years or ages. Let us work harmoniously for a decade or so and then see what we gain. Here lies no question of loss. This is a transaction of pure profit. To us who are mostly of mercantile bent of mind nothing is more palatable than a matter of profit. .
"May these three requisites of our success daily go on developing their co-existence together " ought to be the subject of our devo ut prayer with a wish that we may be happy to see in a concrete form what we always repeat in our daily prayer:
सर्व मंगलं मांगल्यं, सर्व कल्याण. कारणं प्रधानं सर्व धर्माणां, जैनं जयति शासनं
