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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
(1) The Key of Knowledge. (2) The Confluence of Opposites. (3) The Right Solution.
(4) Faith, Knowledge and Conduct, (5) Jainism, Christianity and Science.
(6) The Lifting of the Veil or the Gems of Islam. (7) The Householder's Dharma.
These books will show that Religion is itself a science, the Science of Life. But its teaching is found to be preserved in two different ways to-day: (1) in a plain matter-of-fact language, as in Jainism, and (2) in allegorical imagery, as is the case mostly with the scriptures of the other religions. To-day men have lost the true reading of the allegorical script, and are quarrelling with one another and with intellectual rationalism, in consequence. But in reality identically the same thought and teaching lie hidden under allegory and pictorial orientation in almost every religion. It should thus be easy to reconcile men to one another and to rationalism, and to give them a religious outlook which will have the support of their Reason and reality, and which will be able to control their will, and also, through it, their action.
All this, I say, is possible, if we work in the proper way and direct our thoughts to the real problems facing us. Mere pious wishes will only end in bringing us together on a platform where we are as likely as, indeed, more likely than not to quarrel with one another.
I am not exaggerating the opposition of free-thinking' rationalism in the world of to-day when I say that no conference that avoids or fails to reconcile Religon and Science is ever likely to succeed in making a man give his coat and overcoat both when only one of them is demanded at law. The man of to-day is anxious to take and retain, but not to give. We must also recognise, in the clearest manner possible that there can be no world-peace so long as
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