Jainism in Nutshell

Author(s): Kirtichandrasuri
Publisher: Sumatibhai M Shah

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PRELUDE
[Shri Rishabhdasjee Jain is a true servant of Jain Hierarchy and his love for literature is highly praiseworthy. He is doing very very useful work for the spread of Jain literature. Besides being a member of the Managing Committee of several local religious and charitable institutions he commands a very great influence amongst Jains and non-Jains. This year he has been elected a general secretary of the Madras Andhra District Congress Committee. He has written this Prelude with great pleasure and has thereby enhanced the utility of this booklet.]
Natural it is for any person to be impatient and perturbed whilst in a diseased condition and to strive his best to free himself from such a condition. But he will not be able to realise his aim until he obtains proper means and materials for the remedial measurses. In the same way, it is natural for the intelligentia to strive to free themselves in all possible ways from the pains of major diseases (of the soul) in the form of births, senility and death existing in the stinking body-cell which is full of impurities like flesh