Jainism

Author(s): Herbert Warren
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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OPINIONS
long-felt want and I am positive your book will supply that want."
(Signed) K. P. MODY.
VILLA Truchi, MENTONE, FRANCE,
13th December 1911.
As far as my present knowledge of my own religion goes, and as far as my humble practice of its noble and convincing principles is concerned, I venture to say that I have never come across in the whole range of my English reading on Jainism such a faithful and correct representation of it and of its principles as I have in this book of Mr. H. Warren's. One can feel while perusing it, page after page, and statement after statement, how the writer perceives the truth of Jainism and how it is assimilated in the book. The writer of the book is a seeker of truth and finds it in Jainism after his long and faithful search for it. The problems of life which confront the best minds of the world get their satisfactory solutions in the Jain philosophy, as he recognizes. The reader will find the truths of Jainism put into western garb without any change or even slight modification of the Jain principles as they were presented to the writer by the late Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi, an erudite and eloquent exponent of Jainism at the World's Parliament of Religions held at Chicago in 1893. While in India I went through the book and then took it to one of the well-known Jain priests, who read it in instalments, also to a Jain graduate
well-known among the western students of Jainism. Both