Jaina Gazette 1928

Author(s): Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

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THE JAINA GAZETTE that England has not kept a single one of her pre-war and post-war promises to India.
Some of my esteemed country men who would see India imitate this European country or that invoke the name of "internationalism." But "internationalism" are not all desirable. There are admirers of the "empire" who would have us regard "imperialism" as a form of “internationalism." Count Keyserling points out rightly that the "international " which seeks to suppress the individuality or genius of a people is an evil thing. The politics that would suppress the "individuaity" of India and eliminate from her life the “dharma" to which her seers and sages have borne witness through the ages are not the “politics." I humbly submit, which can take root in the Indian soil.
The "internationalism" that would truly help at once Europe and India is Humanism. It is the vision of Divine Humanity which is the nation's piteous need. This vision is antagonised by British imperialism. For lack of this vision, the nation-cults and empire-cults of to-day worship power, not the Moral Law. And I know not how civilisation which lies bleeding to-day can be saved if the nations will not acknowledge supremacy of the Moral Law and place Humanity above the State. In a book named “The Principles of International Morality" the author says :_“Stable peace in Europe can only be secured by bringing international relations under the Moral Law, that is to say, by insisting on States keeping the Law of God in their dealings with one another."
Not in imitating Europe but in drawing upon an inner shakti,-a creative shakli of the spirit,-a new constructive energy achieving a synthesis of modern science and the wisdom of the Rishis, is the hope of India's advance and achievement.