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

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________________ - CHAPTER XIV A Word to My Young Friends. Now there should not be any talk of frustration among the youth of the day. They should have felt frestration during domination of the whites when there was no scope for Indian talent. · Today, the ball is rolling at your feet atid you may send it wherever you like. I have no concera with politics, you may choose whatever' form of government you think best bat I want to save yourself from the annhılation and advance towards peace and plenty by your own exertions. It should be the duty of everyope to feel himself or herself to be Indian first wherever he or she goes either to the highest or the lowest region of the world and think that he or she is an heir to that kind of ladian culture that has reached the highest degree of perfection and which has been taught to us by, our saints and sages who have acquired that state of perfect knowledge. ' Through self-introspection a youth is sure to find thiet what Bible says is correct. “It is not possible for a man to live by food and wealth alone, but by trath and goodness, work and recreation, affection and friendship, aspiration and worship" "Not by food and wealth alone, but .by the majesty of the oceanbreakers, the shimmer of mooslight on a calm lake, the flashing silver of a mountain

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