Book Title: Jainism and Modern Thought
Author(s): M M Shroff
Publisher: M M Shroff

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________________ There is one fine maxim in Jainism necessary to be followed by every soul who is keen of having peace and happiness and that is, "MAITTI ME SAVVE BHU. ESHU VERAM MAJJA NE KENNAIE" that is to love and to keep friendship with all, enmity with nobody in other words love all hate none. In a compendious form it can be said, “Jainism apart from being itself a living religion today it is in itself a life's code." "Jardism has while dealing with all the subjects in a masterly way shown us the best socialism, Jainism has no better ideals than Truth, Non-violence and renunciation (SATYA, AHIMSA and TYAGA), hence nobody can deny the perfect and scientific accuracy of Jain ideals which are without any doubt the best and if followed'in our daily life one is sure to be easy and thereby become the possessor of real contens tedness." Terapanth, Its Origin and Reasoning. "Whenever Dharma decays and when that which is not Dharma prevails, I manifest into mysell. For the prolection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm establishment of the national nighteousness, I am born again and again" So says-'Bhagavad-Gita'-and never was any prophesy conclusively vindicated than this, by the appearence of Sant Bhickhanjee. The fact that there existed at the time many ascetic orders which had originated from the imperfect understand

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