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

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________________ 157 indiscriminate diffusion of knowledge, lo l the Truth will once more raise its stooping face. This thought of the sages and true saints, is an excellent one and has attained so much urgency and utility and won the golden opinion of the age that a universal cry for it is being heard to be arising from every province of human life, social, moral, political and religious, literary, industrial and economical. Yes! Truth is believed to be bare and naked and that is why we think that it tends to reveal itself from top to bottom of life without keeping any part hidden or reserved. The ultimate triumph and victory of the Truth is a sure and certain fact. Now if one loses control over his soul he will become a crucified animal and not a human being at all. This happens, whenever we donot care to ward off sufferings or our activities become unclean and corrupt in the society, there comes a decline and it is followed by a fall We have therefore, to remember today to preseve fundamental values of our culture and care to see that our social orientation corresponds to the great ideals we profess. Let it not be a saying that we were more vigorous in proclaiming the ideals and less effective in practising them True glory takes roots and even spreads, all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground. We have brains and hearts to think. It is our duty to control ourselves from falling into worldly achievements

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