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The Jains through Time
The vibrancy of the Tirthanakar's voice is indubitable voice of the Supreme Ones, and attuned to the pace of the soul's progress; it that every word written in these texts is the has nothing to do with the course of the gospel truth. To stamp every compilation stars and the satellites, the depths of rivers written in Prakrit, or Ardha-Magadhi with and streams, or the greater or lesser heights the seal of Mahavir, is not a reflection of of mountains of gold and silver. The voice of true devotion. If we are true devotees, true the seers represents an all-encompassing believers, we need to free ourselves from friendship and a universal consciousness. this tendency; we must understand that any There are no notes in it of class conflict, cast thought, factual information or expression antipathy, or false fantasies. Neither science, that pertains to research and the analysis of nor experiment can ever challenge the the material world, and can also be eternal truth that echoes in the voice of the disproved by empirical evidence, is not a Realised Ones. No genuine seeker after the divine revelation, and we cannot recognise truth can ever negate the teachings of the it as a scripture either. It may be a Venerated Ones. However, we should not collection, a composition, or literature remain so entrenched in our ignorance; we created or compiled by Acharyas, but it should not believe that everything which cannot be scripture. passes in the name of scripture, is indeed the
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