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UNREAL PURSUIT OF REALITIES
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Modes of Government and war change with times. The chariots and arrows of Mahabharata have evolved up to tanks and machine.gans and shells and mines and aeroplanes of to-day. Indians are like ignorant, puling babes in the military art on land and sea and in air. In the art of Government, democratic, parliamentary or any other, they are centuries behind the other nations of the World. And yet they want Political Freedom and Status, as if they were equals of all the nations with whom they are co-signatories in the League of Nations. An untouchable may purchase a First Class ticket by a trian in which all other First Class passengers are Brahmins in India. The position of India in the Family of Nations to-day, is not much different from that of the untouchable First Class ticket-holder above.
Willing and instinctive obedience to and co-operation with Law has to filter down into the lives and thoughts and feelings of Indian masses, and they have to become trained to fall immediately into an united unbreakable solid fronted line of soldiers to protect their hearths and homes and the land and the water boundaries of their beloved Motherland, before any talk of self-Government can become real. Men and women have to grow into strong, genuine, real citizens before real Politics can be pursued.
Indeed it is easy to see how unreality saturales our pursuit of our social aims, our local self-Government, our commerce and trade, our law and justice, our domestic lives our books and news. papers, in fact all our individual and aggregate lives. Till this un-reality is cured and its recurrence prevented, no substantial or real advance in any direction is even possible.-J. L. Jaini.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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