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perception of outlook are now necessary in the observance of their vows and austerities also. It is time that with modern age when this big world has completely opened up with continents of America, Africa and Australia becoming accessible to mankind as a whole compared to what little of the world-land was available to what little of the population of the people found then, almost 2000 to 2,500 yeare ago (even the existence of these continents was unknown) when spiritual giants such as Lord Parshvanath, Lord Mahavira, and Lord Gautam Buddha in India; Confucious and Lao Tze in China; Thales, pythagoras, Plato & Aristotle in Europe (Greece); Moses, Abraham, Zoroaster and the Lord Jesus the Christ in Central Asia walked and preached upon the earth in flesh and blood (these preachings being later formulated as frames of thought i.e. 'religions', forces binding us back to the soul, as the word 'religion' etymologically actually means): this modern age when all races and colours now live and have settled for life with inter-relationships such as of marriage, business, social life etc., in all countries of the world on a scale never known before: this modern age when fruits of technology, industry and science are becoming available to whole mankind in an unprecedented manner again on a monumental scale: this modern age when a tremor of misery or unhappiness or natural disaster in any corner of the world shakes up the entire mankind for help and assistance irrespective of its location: this modern age when so many of the ruling class of people, kings, princes, presidents and prime ministers hold so many discussions together to solve so many problems in a concerned manner facing the whole human society and this modern age when if re-incarnation is acceptable, thousands of souls migrate to continents other than their own for centuries or generations never done before for new births to gain further fresh experience never had earlier in their journey from eternity onward to life's final destination of attaining divinity: the ancient and out-dated notions of non-violence to save lives of minute life-forms such as in speech, heat, light, water, vegetables growing under soil, bugs, lice, mosquitoes, flies, insects, worms, cocroaches, lizards etc, be replaced by new ones. Even for the discharge of physical impurities (urine and stools) the extreme to
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