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2, lower life circles and the crescent and a circle in the crescent; now the cross is complete. When expressed partially an idea is misinterpreted. I will give an example.
There is a verse (among the Jainas) of two lines, the meaning of the second being connected with that of the first and these two lines must be interpreted together. The Brahmins, who had been at certain epochs in the history of India inimical to the Jainas, got hold of the second line only, which they interpreted to mean 'Even if a person is going to be killed by an elephant, he ought not to go into the Jaina temple'. The idea conveyed by the Brahmin interpreter is that the Jaina temple is so bad that one ought not to seek protection in it even if he is on the point of being killed by an elephant. If you take the first line with it then the whole meaning is changed. It is this:-" When a person has killed an animal or any living thing or has returned from an immoral house, or a visions place, or if he has drunk wine, then he ought not to pollute the Jaina temple even if he is followed by an elephant. So, in the case of the Swastika - if you take only the cross and side lines you cannot have the full meaning, while if the circles and crescent are added you have the whole before you. The idea is, there are four grades of existence of souls in the material universe.
The first is the lowest state. When the soul evolved from that state it comes to the next stage - the plant, the earth, the
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