Samajonnayak Krantikari Yugpurush Bramhachari Shitalprasad

Author(s): Jyotiprasad Jain
Publisher: Akhil Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Parishad

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73 H C. GOSWAMI, J.I.C.S., Asstt. Commr. Gauhati (8-4-1920) He (Br. Sital Prasadji) kept the whole house spell-bound for nearly two hours, and it was a real treat to listen to his lucid exposition of the seven cardinal principles of Jainism. I am sure his illuminating lecture has been able to remove existirg misconceptions about the Jain Theology from the views of my Hindu brethren. Solomon D. Aaron, Chairman- Indian Association Phagli- Simla ( 21-5-1922 ) We were glad to notice that your lecture on 'self-advancement, contained nothing of sectarian or political prejudices and was a most philosophical discourse designed to uplift humanity at large. My Association would be obliged if you would deliver another illuminating lecture to the ladies of the place on, 'Stri Dharma' C.S. MILLAN 1.C.S. Like Lord Bacon, the lecturer ( Br. Sital Prasadji) has taken all knowledge to be his province, and by his quotations from Plato end Aristotle, from Descartes and Sir Oliver Lodge, he has shown that he has traversed the whole range of philosophical enquiry from the earliest to the most modern period... The great name of Mahavir will in future ever be honoured by me. Mahavir seems to have discovered long before Descartes the fundamental truth "Cogita ergo sum" It hink, therefore I am. This is the foundation of the European theory of intellectual idealism which has been expounded more fully hy kant and Hegel. Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhagwan Das, eminent Philosopher I had the pleesure of knowing Shri Sital Prasadji Brahamchari. and therefore I have the sorrow of knowing that I shall not see him any more. He was a very good, kind, gentle; saintly soul, always intent on spreading peace all around, disliking and shrinking from the fanaticisms and bigotrios of the quarrelsome sectariang