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NOTES AND NEWS
209 of existence: Little attention is being paid to the Bharata Jain Mahamandal, These were institutions, which had a liberal catholic outlook, and which could rightly and truly he called All India Jain Institutions. The Jaina Gazette, the only effective organ of the Jaina community, which is capable of the promulgation of Jainism far and wide is in a precarious condition, ailing at Madras. Though neglected, it has a wonderful vitality, and we hope that it shall yet live down, and survive the illtreatment which is being accorded to it,
Men and money are both needed. The rich people should help with all the money they can spare, and capable workers should come forward with an earnest desire to work, to serve. Work is worship, and service is religion.
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In an assembly of six thousand people, on August 6, at Ommen, in Holland, at the camp of the Star in the East, J. Krishnamurti dissolved the Order of the Star in the East and declared that it was useless to try to re-establish order and harmony in the world through groups and organisations, while individuals themselves were chaotic, unharmonious, and disturbed.
The transformation of the individual must come first, "man being entirely responsible to self, creates by his own limitation barriers around him which cause sorrow and pain. In the removal of these self-impozed limitations lies the glory of selffulfilment."
In one of his lectures he said: "I do not want you to beleive in a world Teacher."
Mrs. Annie Besant, interviewed by Reuter, expressed the opinion that the dissolution of the Star in the East was quite logical in view of Krishnamurti's stress on individual judgment and liberty. "My fundamental belief in Krishnamurti as a world teacher" she stated, “makes me more inclined to observe and study rather than express an opinion on the method chosen by one whom I consider far my superior."
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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