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priest-craft. But the mind cannot feed on distrust and contempt alone;, elders have not given him anything positive to fill the void elders have thus thoughtlessly created. This is his malady, We will have to set our house in order ourselves. It is not possible for him to get much enlightenment from the West, as west itself seem to be in a state of ideological Aux or rather in the grip of a tremendous nervous strajn, is not in a position to guide any one to mental balance Hence to come into the full realisation of their own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition their life in exact accord with what they could have it; and it should be the duty of those experienced people to bend the youth more towards spiritvality by peaceful methods instead of accusing them.
Remember, my friends, great majority of ignorant people live their little lives by virtue of the fact that they do not realize the larger life to which they are heirs. They have not yet reached the knowledge of the real identity of their true selves. The blame does not lie with the elders only the waiversities for instance are also responsible. Whatever their achievements in the purely intellectual field, they have failed us on what might be called the cultural front. Tliere has been no effort,' so far as I am aware to initiate a movement of thought, to evolve an ideology, to work for the shaping of a culture, a religion on the lines chanted to us by that Sarvagna Lord Mahavira an all embracing one and
