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THE JAINA GAZETTE Such a party of Sadhus visited Lucknow in March 1926, on their way to the Parasnath Hill in Bihar, and it was on their way back to the west that they passed Lucknow, on the occasion of which I am writing. They would not travel in the four months of the rainy season, during which time they will very likely stay at Karhal, District Mainpuri.
Though a Christian and a true follower of Christ, I still will say that Sadhus who have left all worldly connections and strive after attaining salvation and perfection should be respected by persons of all shades of opinion and religious belief. I am told that they are not the Nangas (Nagas) who follow quite a different way of living. These Sadhus are considered by the Jain community as recluses of the highest order.
ALFRED JACOB SHAW.
JAINISM AND ITS POWER TO STOP
HUMAN WARFARE.
(Continued from page 115.) The next thing to understand is that the substance of souls is
I pure intelligence. This will become quite clear if we study an act of perception. When I look at that ornamentation on the wall yonder, what happens is that a visual sensory stimulus emnating from the ornamental thing outside me impinges on my eyes and is carried inwards resulting ultimately in perception. But surely this incoming current of stimulus is not knowledge nor even charged or loaded with knowledge. For what comes from the outside is only matter or energy in one form or another, never knowledge! Whence the knowledge, then, that is implied in perception? Surely not from the without, but only from the within ! If you think deep on the subject you will perceive that knowledge is a state of the consciousness of that something which is simple by nature, and which we have now learnt to regard as the immortal soul. Knowledge is thus
shown to be an affection of the soul. Now, let me concede that Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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