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handiwork of the primitive man, soon after his emergence from the hanuman (monkey) race, she is trying to recall her long forgotten past which has caused her so much trouble. Herself the offspring of the most illustrious Mother, we can already imagine her thoughtful face lit up with joy as she faintly recalls her earlier surroundings, when her great poet-admirers used to render her spiritual lessons easier to remember, by versifying their substance in symbolic thought. Her Mother is still awaiting to receive her back with open arms, and though she has aged considerably since, she is as full of love and forgiveness now as she has been all her life. It will un
*The world-riddle will always baffle evolutionists, unless and until they can manage to acquire a proper insight into the nature and potentialities of the soul, which, as has been fully proved in the 'Key of Knowledge' and the 'Science of Thought,' is endowed with potential omniscience. This potentiality of an all-embracing knowledge does not need the acquisition of anything from without to become an actuality of experience, but only the removal of that which the soul has absorbed of foreign matter. Thus, the simpler the life, the better the chances of the unfoldment of the higher types of jñana. Hence the ancients who were given to simple living and high thinking were better qualified for true wisdom than we, their remote descendants of this age, may be willing to give them credit for. That this is actually the case is borne out by ancient tradition - Puranas and the like-which receive circumstantial verification from the intrinsic evidence furnished by the marvellous perfection of thought underlying the teaching of religion in general and of the Jaina Siddhanta in particular. It would thus appear that far from having eclipsed the ancients by our greater attainments, we have actually squandered away to a great extent the legacy of wisdom left by them, and have but little more than fashions and unproductive materialism to be proud of. This certainly does not look like a stride in the path of evolution and progress, but is essentially one in a retrograde direction.
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