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CHAPTER XII
Youth and Religion Purpose and Meaning of Religion Jain Faith and Philosophy
to a Modern Youth. Today the youth has been accused of drifting away from spirituality rather not believing in religion and has imbibed much more of physical matters. I being a member to that order being accused went deep in the subject and after long discourses with the younger generation to convince myself as to the correctness of the accusation, I found to my utter surprise, the accusation to be farther away from truth so many respects.
To a youth, a true religion, is then a religion when it works for the elevalion of the soul. Like a golden thread it should serve a dyal purpose, one to drag out the people fallen under the clutches of worldly pleasures and secondly to hold people from falling pray to the attraction of physical passions The Jain religion 18 sa itself a code of life. It has described all the subjects in a perfect manner and it is the Jain religion that has given us the best socialism. In comparision to all the faiths of the world the Jain faith has a very important place, nghtly speaking Jainism has a secured place in the treasure house of living religions. Its principles have given a very high impression to one and all. It rightly shows an illumined pathway to peace and
