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The Jaina Philosophy Take universal love and the result derived from the practice of this is freedom from danger of any kind. A person who practises universal love to the highest extent in all the relations of life has no tear of injury from any source; but we generally do not practise these things and therefore how can we expect to derive real benefit from them ? Nothing can injure such a person except on account of the Karma engendered in the past life which is not yet worked out. The actual result you will see in India. It has been said, "He shall give his angels charge over thee,” but human beings are higher than angels. I have said in my other classes concerning the Hindu monks that when a person practises universal love his very being becomes saturated with the vibrations of love, and the wild animals, which prey upon each other because they have no sympathy, in the case of these monks the vibrations subdue the animal nature and the monks can sleep in the jungle among the wild beasts with perfect safety.
I would say that India is not one country but a collection of many nationalities, and the Hindus are only one of these and therefore the whole of India is not Hindu India, but India is a combination of Hindus, Jainas, Mohammedans, Christians, Jews, Parsees, Turks and remnants of the aboriginal tribes or Hill men, The population is about three hundred millions. The statistics as they have been presented show that about twenty thousand persons were in a certain year killed by wild beast, including of course serpents and scorpions. This twenty thousand when compared to the whole population of India is not so very large.
Even in the United States most of the crimes which are committed can be traced to drink, and when we compare that state with the state of India the deaths from wild animals are nothing in comparison to the other statement; and when we also consider the fact that these people who are killed are not always Hindus, and that all of them are not of the highest class in morality,
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