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can easily aim at becoming a supreme soul according to Jainism.
Besides, Jainism prescribes an unfailing, gradual path for the upliftment of the soul so that man can understand as to how much exertion will lead to what height and how much more exertion can lead to so much more height. Thus, Jainism prescribes the gradual stagies or steps for the evolution and upliftment of the soul -right upto the highest stage where he becomes the highest, supreme, omniscinet soul. The biology, the philosophy, the practical ethics of asceticism, the religious doctrines etc. of Jainism are perfectly scientific. As a result of this, Western Scholars such as Bernard Shaw, Herman Jacobi and many others were attracted towards Jainism and they had continued to practice Jainism in their lives.
So far as Bernard Shaw is concerned, he was not only a pure vegetarian, out of his compassion for the living beings that have five senses; but he was also full of compassions even for those living beings that have only one sense-organ. Once he was attending a dinner party where non-vegetarian food was being served. Mr. Shaw, therefore, sat quite without eating. One of his neighbours asked him, "Mr. Shaw, why do you not eat anything? ". Mr. Shaw replied by saying, "Please, excuse me, but you should remember that my stomach is not a graveyard for dead animals."
The same Bernard Shaw was favoured by a visit by a lady. When the lady saw that an empty flower vase was lying on the table of Mr. Bernard Shaw, she asked Mr. Shaw if he did not like flowers.
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