Book Title: Mahavira Smruti Granth Part 01
Author(s): Kamtaprasad Jain, Others
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Society Agra

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________________ The Way to Salvation By Sri. WALTER LEIFER, Dringenberg-Westfalen, Germany ( noua eta han feat The Team 7147 . greu sman बेचारसरणीको हिंसासे दूषित ठहरा कर लोकसे खास कर यूपवालोंसे यह अपील की है कि वे महावीर, बुद्ध और गाधीके सत्य-अहिंसाके सदेशको सुनें और उस पर आचरण करें। 'मुक्तिमार्ग' - TO ITO] The world has been a field of bloody struggles of the dations between themselves. Welves. Mankind discovered highest material matters of important rect, but lost the best values, the central values of humanity 10terior berty and human feeling. Especially, the Western world has to suffer from cuic products which were made by mea, but which themselves made men products of a mechanized century Where 18 to be found the solution of s problem of the mechanized Occidental world; where is the " mukti Se for this part of the human community, where is tbis way to salvation ? Il we, men of Western origin, do not find this way themselves, we should 4 our hearts to the messages of the East, where India has grown fit to e the home of a spiritual bumanism, where Tirthankara Mahāvim med: "Towards your fellow creatures be not hostile., All beings de paine • therefore do not fkill them." And where Buddha taught bis Pupus bis supreme truth : "Manopubbangama dhamma, manosetta, mano. - Mind goes first in the world , mind is the best, mind is creative” near this message of Asia -- these words of Buddha, Vira, Rama, did we Europeans and other Westerners follow the divine gospel marga" Did we hear this mes Alak - did we Europe of Christ? than of the whole centus peans, the Ame World teachers against all the buman messages from Asia, we occidentals had our gospel imperialism, of nationalism, of chauvinis, of class struggles The osest sides of Western thought led to disharmony of the world he year 1948 has been for India a year of tragedy and sorrow. It say eath of the greatest of all the Indians of our time, perhaps the greatest I the whole century. What he taught, should be heard by us, the Euro3, the Americans etc. the Occidentals, too. Gandfuli, India's and the id teacher, had the remedy to heal our troubled earth : Ahimsa and Satya! Let us listen to Gandhi's World Message t Bapu Gandhiji's object was much the liberation of India as the liberation of the men and of the Violence is the history of men, but con-violence is the dream of the o the struggle between violence and -710lence goes on not in the ter battlefields, but in the hearts of the mea. not so much the libera world Violence ist Wise, and the struggle

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