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muscular energy and the faculty of inhibition are less in women, we find ourselves involved in flagrant contradiction. This contradiction disappears if we consider the miracles of feminine energy as suggestive rather than as voluntary phenomena, as nervous rather than muscular; as phenomena in whose production the subconscious plays a great part-a fact that does nothing to lessen their value. Contrariwise, for what may we not expect when we have gained methodical control over the force which, in spontaneous action has already worked such miracles?" The fact is that a woman's life is less intellectual and more emotional. It is also more romantic and more passionately dedicated to love than a man's, or, as an English writer has so well put it, 'love is of a man's life but a part; it is the woman's whole existence.' Now, since salvation cannot be obtained by any possibility till the complete eradication of all kinds of passions, emotions, desires and loves, it would follow that the being whose 'whole existence is love' could not obtain it from the female form. Besides this, a woman cannot be expected to overcome her sense of 'shame' so far as to follow the rules of conduct of unrobed digambara asceticism without which salvation is out of the question, for a complete detachment from the world is only possible for the mind that is not interested in the procurement of even a langoti, and complete detachment from the world is an essential condition for salvation. For these reasons "Istri Mukti fails to appeal to an enquiring mind, and is altogether a work very much inferior both in respect ⚫ of conception and execution to the "Asali and Nakli Dharmatma" which is highly interesting and useful from beginning to end.
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More cogent are the reasons advanced in the "Origination of Brahmanas" (Brahmnon-ki-Utpatti), though even here the criticism is purely destructive. It may be that there were no Jaina Brahmanas at the commencement of the Panchama
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