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JAINISM AND ITS POWER TO STOP
HUMAN WARFARE.*
Salutation to the Founder of the Science of Religion :
Adi Purusha Adisha JINA Adi Subuddha Karatara
Dharma Dhurandara Parama GURU Namaun Adi Avatara. (Translation) :-Salutation to the First Divinity Incarnate,
the First Perfect Man, the Lord of Jinas (Conquerors), the First Most Excellent Arranger of things, the Supporter of Dharma (Religion) and the Supreme
Teacher. Brothers and Sisters or as you have it in the West, Ladies and Gentlemen!
I am happy to have this opportunity of delivering the great Jaina Message of Peace and Love to the present distinguished gathering of thoughtful women and men, in this great cosmopolitan rendezvous of nations, and I like to take this opportunity of thanking Madame Benigni who has so kindly made the necessary arrangements for to-day's lecture. Now, as you know, the subject of my lecture is Jainism and its power to put a stop to human warfare. We all remember the awful times through which the world passed duning the recent great war. That was fought out, so some people thought and so everybody said at the time, to secure peace. That horrible war ended about eight years ago, but we have seen nothing of the peace that we fought so furiously to secure! On the contrary, the atmosphere is as hostile to peace to-day as it was when the war came. We still have the same old ideals, the same lust of power and acquisition, the same unhealthy rivalries between nations that had turned the world into so many armed encampments ready to burst into a huge conflagration at any moment, on the least provocation. There is no difference in the treatment of the weaker nations by the stronger ones ; there is no
• A lecture delivered by Mr. C. R. Jain before " Le Trait d'Union " Society at Nice,
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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