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THE JAINA GAZETTE the weak, in their avoidance and relief of suffering in others, in their admitting to kinship with themselves the animals and birds of creation, that they and all who follow them derive their individual strength. The “doing without" selfdiscipline is the instrument of peaceful conquest of themselves and of the world. Jainism and vegetarianism dispute to-day the almost universally acknowledged supremacy of the material forces in the world. They belong to the realms of higher thought, clarified vision and the true and beautiful in conduct, which surmount all the base materialistic concepceptions of life that clog the soul and dim the spiritual sight.
They are-Jainism and Vegetarianism-two lovers walking in a garden of flowers, whose every flower has a name and whose living things will answer trustfully to their call, over keeping a watchful eye over thumselves, but each willing to give all not for the indulgence of self but for the enrichment of the other.
The Householder's Dharma in Jainism
BY
Kamta Prasad Jain, M.R.A.S.
(Continued from page 66 of the last issue.) NOW we have seen above that Right Belief occupies .an 1 important place in Jainism. And so, there are mainly two classes of Jaina laymen; oiz., (1) A-orati, (2) and Vrati. The former is that layman, who only possesses faith in Jainism, but does not control his senses and abstain from hinsa (Injury) of modeable and immoceable living beingsl, They
1, "No indaye suvirado na jive tbavare tare vapi |
Jo.sadda hadi jipujam samaittbi aviradoso||29|11-Gomattasara. But it seem, that the latter Acary as, who came after Sri Nomacapdracarya of the Gomattasara, did not keep this preliminary stage of the layran loose. They styled it as the Paksika Sravaka'. Atage and St. Asadhara enjoins the observance of all the eight "Mula-gunas" and avoidance of the seven vioes from the very outost, vix:
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