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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
and the soul purified by the undoing of the act completely, the stain will produce very undesirable effect in the future for the doer of evil. This point is instilled in the mind of the Jain in his childhood, when the heart is the most impressionable; and the effect is simply wonderful. The Jaina shudders if he has to cause hurt to a living being. According to criminal statistics, the percentage of Jaina law-breakers is the smallest of all. This is because the heart of the Jaina is filled with mercy and love for all living beings. Universal Love is, in reality, the religion of the Jaina. There is no superstition in Jainism to regard any one as an enemy of the Gods. According to Jainism there is no such god who can regard living beings, especially men, as his enemies. Justice and mercy are the qualities which the Jainas have to acquire at all costs. Only from a heart that is saturated through and through with mercy and justice and universal love can we expect peacefulness under all circumstances. Where justice is there can be no hypocrisy, or the diplomat's deceitful talk.
If you want peace in the world it is your duty to study the doctrine of AHIMSA in the scientific way. I can tell you it will repay you more than you can think it will. Don't dismiss the subject summarily, but devote time and trouble to its study as a science. Religion has the aspect of a science in Jainism.
add, you cannot ever Indeed, the disposipeace is the one that
Without absolute justice, I should hope to attain to a world-wide peace. tion that is required to secure world will be willing to make a gift of the cloak also if a claim is laid to the coat. The significance of the point is this that to-day many people and nations are holding the property and lands belonging to other nations and men. Do you think you can ask them to join in maintaining a world peace, and not restore to them what you have taken from them? It is only when you get ready to give away the cloak also with the coat that is claimed that you will have anything
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