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ality of our faith has almost evaporated, and we are quarrelling ove the secular advantages which our professions might bring. The present-day political situation in India is but adding fuel to the fire by directing our attention to the privileges and rights which go with the different faiths. Naturally we have ceased to think that true religion is above the sphere of politics and of our usual material advantages. This madness has not, so far as I am aware, touched yet our Jaina brethren. But the atmosphere is too much infected already, and the fear is they might also catch the infection. The only hope of escaping it lies in their keeping true to the moral spirit of syadvada. My earnest appeal to them is to apply this spirit to their life, not to one side of it, but to the whole. They can remain loyal to the great sage from whom proceeds the doctrine only in this way. True worship of the Jinendra lies only in living the life he has indicated by the Syadvada. Let us now conclude with the prayer :
Ragadveshamukhadvisham cha parishat kshipta kshanat yena sā 1. sa sriviravibhurvidhūtakalushām bhu dhim vidhattam mama II.
THE CALL OF THE TIMES.
BY
Hem Chandra Rai, M.A., M.R.A.S. (London), F. R. E. S.
THAT our community occupies a very sorry and unenviable
position in the political life of the country is an acknowledged fact. We have been evincing a sort of chronic apathy towards current politics. This attitude has already done immense harm to the community and there is little doubt that if persisted in, the process of degradation will go on with accelerated speed until at last it will be too late to retrieve the situation. To the superficial observer the low political status of our community is a queer paradox. We are not wanting in intellectual capacity. Government records mark us out as one of the richest mercantile Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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