Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1910 Book 06

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

Page 77

1910)
Vegetarian Prize Essay.
to shut their gates against the Japanese will show to any man of oii in:ry intelligence that flesh-eaters have aniserably failed in competitio with thie vegetarius Their simple habits and shrewdness, activity an liligenre gire to the Vegetariani A sintie o superiority over the tieslieation Westeriler. Ther can till out :: upeitter qunits of work it a less cu on coil therefore under-ell their verraries in the main ker. In uiditie to its che:mess it has one special revantage fur Inili: which vug! not to be overlooked. The adoption of the leget ble vliet will rema the di-cured 10w existing between the liniuos au the Mabomeda the antipathy, which borders on tied ay:inst the liualnans may, some extent le viperl oilt and the task of univl and progress, rendere ersier. Jauty noble Oils have tried their hand at the sulution of the vifficult problem of de fusion of the two races. The first and the fulla most among there was Aktur the great. The Veen I:thi wis founded for this very purpo-e but it d'eil to achieve its object. The causes of Akbaida filiure are not far iu seek. The opien viegradation of the leading Mullas, thieu itssuming of the tile af Khalifarul Khudil, the alteration in the forın salutistion and the indirect pressure brought to leur on the Courtiers ! subscribe tu ihe finith of the Emperor nipped the movement in the buy
After Akbar came Bab: Nanak, the Curn of the Shikls, while forbude the Hussalmans from killing cous and pre:ached to the Hii sous to give up the worshipping of stones. Every religion is inauguri red with the inust humane motives but als time passes the followers she new religion turn militant and try tofurce their views on others the point of bayonet. The spirit of reconciliation and the policy of lear "e-i-
tce observable in the acts of the originator become scarce and scard ind the form instead of the spirit of the reforms remains behin, Kabee Was the third man who gruppel wish the baril problem and preache practic:lly she same doctrines which his pre lecessors hd done wic tie exception that he wisely refrained from adding one more secti the already existing many.
I have tried in brief the history of the efforts made to unite til Plinius ant die Jusulmans, in order to show that there still remail
ne more means for bringing about the desired result which if purs ed in a receful manner is sure to be successful. But we must wit