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151 Buddhism out of India, by crushing Jainism and all but driving it out of India. It was laid low in humble dust by the virile hordes of Young Muslim advance. India absorbed Muslims somehow or other. The boot of John Bull ktpt both the Pandits and Maulvis down. That boot is relaxing its pressure now. The Pandit and Maulvi are up and at their old game again, as witness the Shuddi and Sangathan and the Tabligh and Tanzim movements. Mother cow and music before mosques are the pretexts of brotherly butchery all over India.
The Hindus were never tolerant to the Jainas. The Muslim never distinguished between the stone-idols of Jainas or Hindus.
To him both are equally the symbol of human degradation and superstitious sacrilege. Thus the Jainas are between the Devil and the Deep Sea. According to Jainism and all true religions, the world and its flimsy, transient pomp and power must be renounced as they lead Man Satanward. But so long and so far as such renunciation is not practised, worldly success comes only to a community which is properly organised, strictly disciplined, and uncompromisingly clamorous for its just rights, claims and interests.
The Muslims and Sikhs have raised their voices and gained clear recognition of their importance and rights.
The Jainasıare being broken up by external pressure, as in the case of Sikharji Hill which they had to purchase from their custodian-trustee, the Hindu Raja of Palganj ; and in the case of Shatrumjaya, from the Hindu Raja of Palitana, in G, P. from the Hindu leader, Mr. G. S. Khaparde, etc. They are being broken up also by their internal dissensions and violent, unreligious, unJaina quarrels with each other, as over Sikharji, Rajgrihi, Pavapuri, Kasaria Pareshnath, etc., etc.
The Jaina Political Conference. There is a young institution, Jaina Political Conference, which was started by brother Ajit Prasada, MA., L.L.B., Lucknow and a few other leading Jainas about 7 years ago at Delhi.
It was blessed by patriots like Loka Manya Tilak and others. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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