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Let the modern arm-chair critic reflect on these great sayings of serious men, which promise to the suffering humanity the attainment of the perfection that is divine and unexcelled-aye, the Perfection which people associate with their loftiest conception of Divinity and Godhood!
It will be now fully evident that the ideal in view in Christianity is identically the same as that which Jainism has been preaching all along, and that the attainment of it is also declared by these religions to be dependent on the complete separation of Spirit from Matter. The methods of the other religions have already been studied in other works by the present writer, and need not be gone into here afresh. The observations here made are to be taken as supplementing the notes on the Jewish and Christian doctrines examined in my other books, and should if possible, be read along with them.
JAINISM IN QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS. (Continued from page 57 of the last issue). 16. Q. What are Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct ?
A. Right Faith is belief in the nature of things as they are (Tattvas). Right Knowledge is the detailed and correct knowledge of things. Right Conduct consists of the observance of the rules of virtuous and upright life.
17. Q. Which are the Tattvas ?
A. The Tattvas are seven in number. They are Jiva, Ajiva' Asrava, Bandha, Samvara, Nirjara and Moksha. Jiva is Soul. Ajiva Non-Soul consisting of Pudgala (Matter), Dharma (Medium of Motion). Adharma (Medium of Rest), Akasa (Space) and Kala (Time). Asrava is the inflow of Karmic Matter into the Soul. Bandha is the bondage of the Soul with the Karmic matter. Samvara is the stopping the inflow of the Karmic matter into the Soul. Nirjara is the process of removing the Karmic matter already accumulated in the Soul. Moksha is the Liberation of the Soul
from the Bondage of Karmas. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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