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

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________________ 140 seem to be fountains flowing with the milk of human kindness. His manner, yoice and gesture are poetic, conversationalistic and above all unparallel. His personality is rich in its astral and emotional value. Such is His magaetic power of attraction that wherever He goes either to a squalor or to a palace He takes the centre to the circumference. This is true even He goes only a few yards to give darshan either to tapasvis or invalids Acharaya Tulsi made radical study of the changed era. His heart bled at the sight of the raging lood of materialism and the travesty of religion: and after too much of rumination, 10 order to meet the collocation as sach He propagated a scheme for the moral upliftment of human beings from abasement which in later stage crystallized as 'Anuvrata Sangh' a perfect desideratum. 'First of all He blew the conch of awakening amidst His followers, called many conferences and inspired men and worden, young and old, with these new ideals of moral upliftment so that they might rich the HOI POLLOI. This movement 18 not at all a seqterian one nor it espouses any perticular cause - political or otherwise – save the object of providing a medium to promote the ideals of Truth and Ahimsa-espousing the cause of world peace and world brotherhood. To make it more clear, I should say, a potent endeavour to retrieve the human soul no matter of what caste and creed from retrogression. The quintessence

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