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JAINISM AND WORLD PROBLEMS
PART II
OF
What is Jainism ? ( The Opening Address at the Chicago Conference )
Your HIGHNESS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I bring you hearty good wishes and greetings from the Jaina Community of India. The Jainas are the followers oi Jinas or Tirthamkaras who were all men like ourselves but who attained to the highest conceivable form of Perfection, and are now living in the Abode of Divinity, enjoying Immortality, Full unlimited Knowledge, unlimited Happiness or Bliss, and unlimited, unbounded Power.
The teaching of Jainism really is that we all can attain to the Greatness and Glory which the Illustrious Tirthamkaras have attained to, and may, by following Them on the Path, become like them in all respects, with reference to the Divine attributes that I have named above.
The Jainas are happy to know that you in America take so much interest in Religion. This is your second effort at the understanding of the Truth and the Reconciliation of man to man. Though the attainment is still very far off, it must be said that these efforts are to be commended in every way. The Jainas desire to be associated with everything
* The opening address at the meeting of the Fellowship of faiths, presided over by H. H. the Maharaja Gaekwad of Baroda, at Morrison Hotel, Chicago, on 27th August 1933 at 8 p.m.
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