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3. Religious instruction. The Association should publish books on Jainism giving the views of all the sects side by side. Such books only should be recommended for study by the students. Thus a student, to whichever sect he might belong, will know the teachings of the other sects also.
4. Removal of social evils. The Association should educate the Jains on their present deplorable condition and try to improve their position by removing as rapidly as possible the social evils which have crept into the Jain Society either by association with the other communities or through ignoThe Jains should have before their minds, eye the society of Lord Mahavira's days as the ideal society.
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5. Promotion of Education. The Association should give scholarships to deserving poor students of any Jain sect.
6. Economic relief. Jain banks should be started co-operative system for giving help to the poor Jain families to enable them to do some business and earn their livelihood. Industries can also be started to give work to the unemployed. The Association should prevail upon the leaders of the Digambara and the Svetambara communities to put an end to the religious litigation as early as possible since it is against the very spirit of Jainism.
7. Religious Litigation.
III. The Jaina Gazette
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The Jaina Gazette can be issued in two parts Part I as the organ of the All-India Jain Political Association exclusively for Politics.
Part II as the organ of the All-India Jain Association to discuss all other matters concerning the Jain Community. WHAT WE NEED.
Paper circulars and platform speeches alone cannot help us to achieve our objects. We are urgently in need of money and men.
Money. Every member of the Association should pay at least one per cent of his income every month. A substantial Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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