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श्री परमात्मने नमः
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
The subject of my discourse before you to-day is the Jaina Siddhanta.
The term Jaina Siddhânta is expressive of the Jaina view of things, and stands for the ultimate conclusions that have been accepted by my co-religionists, the Jainas. According to Jainas, philosophy and rational thought are wedded together indissolubly, so that the divorcing of the one from the other would be fatal to both. For rational thought must tend towards the comprehensive consistency of a systematic science to rise above the petty trivialities of the world, and philosophy must adhere closely to rigid rationalism to secure the generally neglected harmony between imagination and actuality or fact. This is destructive of the work of those who employ their reason solely to build up netaphysical props for their own views as well as of those who allow themselves to be exclusively engaged in devising argumentative support for
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