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NOTES AND NEWS.
JAINA GATHERINGS AT LUCKNOW. This year the Jains of Lucknow, on the occasion of the Ratha-utsava annually held by them, on Vasant Panchmi, invited the All-India Digambara Jain Parishad and the All-India Jiva Daya Pracharni Sabha to hold their annual sessions there.
After the usual preliminaries of Mangla-Charan, the proceedings of the Seventh Annual Session of the Jiva Daya Sabha opened on the night of the 6th February 1927, with the Presidential address of Brahmachari Shri Dhanendra Das, lately a Rais, Zamindar and Banker of Arrah.
JIVA DAYA SABHA : THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.
The President opened his learned address by proving the existence of Jiva, the intelligent, conscious, living, principle which knows, thinks and understands, and defined Daya as, protecting from harm each and every one of the organs, mental and physical, through which that principle is found to function; and its Prachar as the practice of treating all living beings in the manner in which you would wish that you yourself should be treated, Christ's command is “Thou shalt not kill" and the Muslim religion requires a believer of that faith not to harm even an ant or a worm, Jiva Daya Pracharni Sabha has been endeavouring to stop the cruel slaughter of animals in the name of religion or superstition that is unfortunately so very prevalent in all parts of India. It is the duty of every human being to assist the Jiva Daya Sabha in its pious work and noble mission of abolishing animal sacrifices, slaughter of animals for food or sport, and the trade in leather.
The public Lectures organised by the Jiva Daya Sabha were delivered in the afternoon of the 7th February 1927 by Brahmacharis Sital Prasada and Digbijai Singh, and Pandit Darbarilal, and among non-Jains by Babu Bhairon Prasada, and Pandit BrijNath Sharga Vakils, Doctor Sahai, and an Arya Samaj Updeshak. Raja Prithwipal Singh Sahib, Taluqdar of Surajpore, who was to preside at these public lectures was unavoidably absent and Rai Bahadur Jugmandardas Honorary Magistrate of Najibabad and Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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