Book Title: Jainism in Nutshell
Author(s): Kirtivijay, Prasannamukh Surchandra Badami
Publisher: Atma Kamal Labdhisuri Gyanmandir

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________________ 62 make one. Not a penny is realised back from it. It only fosters destruction and nourishes animosity. By such inventions the world is not in the least a gainer. The savings from such things, if spent for the upliftment of the poor and the afflicted it will result for the good of millions. It is necessary that people must follow such tracks. The machine age has rendered thousands unemployed. The man today has become poor, indigent and impotent. This result is due to the machine age of today. Increase in the means of better living has only resulted in misery and loss of peace to a large extent. In the past how happy and rich was our country ? What an amount of peace there was ? Today we hear the echoes of fear all around. There is unrest in the world. But this is not yet fully realised by the people. Thousands of years ago, there was no use of machine as we have today nor did we have such inventions or such means yet it is doubtlessly correct that our great sages of the past had seen and known by their superhuman knowledge, all that is discovered or invented today by the modern science:

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