Sacred Philosophy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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stood the language of the mute appeal of the innocent victim of your sporting lust, you would find it to consist of but three words-ahimsa paramo dharmah (non-injury is the highest religion). He appeals to you, not only so that you may spare his life, which you hold so lightly through ignorance, but also that you may have pity on your own soul that is in imminent danger of descending into hell when the oil of life here runs short. And it is to be hoped that this highly humane appeal from dumb animal lips does not fall on entirely deaf ears.
Sri Jaina DHARMA KI JAI.
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