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terspersed here and there with a handful of insinuating similes, analogies and paralogisms. Some of these assertions are too amazing even for the abnormal mental faculties of the irresponsible inmates of certain public intstitutions some of whom, we are assured, are on the point of obtaining Final Liberation. We have, for instance, the statement on p. 259 :
- The sun is present as a whole in the minutest ray of light."
Let us hope it only means that the qualities of the sun and not the sun itself are present, etc.
On p. 274 we are told in reference to maya that being itself a non-existence, it possesses a wonderful shukti (power) of making an unreality look as real."
It will serve no useful purpose to criticise the book any further ; suffice it to say that it is as much remarkable for its hasty assumptions as it is for its inconceivable ideas and illogical deductions, Perhaps the law of polarity which is the key note of the philosophy underlying the author's thesis might some fine morning succeed in demonstrating that good reason and fallacy are but two poles of one and the same thing, and are identical on the principle of "opposites being the same" (p. 260); but till that is done we are not called upon to take it seriously.
It only remains to disabuse the mind of our author of the notion that all religions are equally true, and lead to the same goal. We shall compare the system which he himself advocates side by side with Jainism to enable him to perceive that there is little if anything at all in common between them.
Our Author*
Jainism.
1. The world is a created 1 1. Nobody ever created the world.
world. 2. The world is not real, be- 2. The world is neither uning an imaginary creation in the real nor imaginary. It is nomind of its Creator.
body's mental creation. 3. The Alisolute is the only 3. There is no such thing as reality.
the Absolute. There are six substances, viz., Jivit (spirit, or souls), matter, etc.
. The dialogistic form will be found to be best suited for the occasion, though, of course, it dose not represent an actual conversation.
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