Book Title: Jainism Precepts and Practice
Author(s): Puranchand Nahar, Krishnakant Ghosh
Publisher: Caxton Publications

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________________ AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. and Devil worked together to create this universe of ours which is therefore but a mixture of good and evil. And to push the question still further, both of them being equally powerful and limited by each other, it follows that neither of them was omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Does Mrs. Sinclair wish us to set up within the shrines of our tender hearts such a God the very conception of which is logically absurd. Turning to the effects of karma on social matters it is true, indeed, that here the of India vs earth is soaked by the tears of the ed girls of child-widows, but will Mrs. Sinclair inform her readers as to why the Christian world echoes with the sighs of the unmarried ? Here the Indian widows had had a chance for the husbands to love and to loose in this life as these were written in the their own Karma and there is every reason to hope that they would receive their beloved back more cordially in their warm embraces during the subsequent turn and term of their natural life quite in accor. dance with their own Karma. But what hope The widows the unmarri Europe. 300

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