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THE JAINA GAZETTE
MADRAB:
VOL. XXVI )
No. 5
WHOLE No. 299
MAY 1930.
The World League of Ahimsa. I accept with pleasure Mr. C. R. Jain's invitation to intro. Iduce this League to the readers of the Jaina Gazette, knowing that nowhere in the world will the idea of Ahimsa be better appreciated than in India, where the duty of harmlessness is recognized as paramount. “Ahimsa paramo dharma."
At present, as we all know, men in every part of the world -oven in India-are eating flesb, though happily less in India than in most countries, and such food can be obtained only by taking life. In India too, the law of divine justice-there called Karma is widely known, and under that law we are bound to experience ourselves, sooner or later, whatever injuries we inflict on other lives, human or sub-human. It is not hard to guess that the wide-spread sickness, disease and permature death which we see around us are but the inevitable consequences of our own ill-doing. To put it broadly, man is suffering for ill-treating and killing his younger brethren in evolution, and must continue to suffer until he ceases to kill. The welfare of man and beast are inseparably bound up together.
For man, however, the evil does not stop there. He suffers still more seriously through his spiritual progress being barred. In India more than elsewhere in the world, it is known that all life is sacred, divine in essence and potentiality. Every one of the countless lives, at whatever stage it may be,
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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