Jainism

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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JAINISM
BROTHERS: We shall find ourselves now in a very different atmosphere. We shall not now have round us the atmosphere of romance, of chivalry, that we find both in the faith of Islam and in that of the Sikhs. On the contrary we shall be in a calm, philosophic, quiet atmosphere. We shall find ourselves considering the problems of human existence looked at with the eye of the philosopher, of the metaphysician, and on the other hand the question of conduct will take up a large part of our thought; how man should live; what is his, relation to the lower creatures around him; how he should so guide his life; his actions, that he may not injure, that he may not destroy. One might almost şum up the atmosphere of Jainism in one