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SANATANA JAINA,
self-mortification, as his object is to idea. Nor is it considered a truc make himself insensible to bodily pain ideal of humanity to make the human as well as pleasure.
soul unfeeling like marble. Yet an In this way the Muni leads his life f emotionless life was the ideal of anci.
ont sages, both in the East and the till be overpowers all desires, passions,
West. And heartless as the Jain and emotions, and trains his soul to
philosophy would appear to be, it cerperfect independence for the body. The soul is freed from all Karmas and tainly sprang from feeling, nay sensi
in tive hearts. The death of a dear in its pure state acquires the divine
i relation or friend, the faithlessness of attributes of omnipotence and omnisci
i & beloved wife, the sight of misery ence. No further change is possible
around them, the sudden vanishing in this soul, as there is no motive to:
of an absorbing pleasure, the sense of any sort of action afterwards. This is
injustice and cruelty attempted for the state of perpetual busy to make their benefit by their wordly wellJain aspires, this is Nirvana.
wishers,--such are the occasions that The Western mind finds it difficult prove to be the turning-point in the to conceive how a state without any lives of saints as sketched in Jain emotion whatever can be called & Sastras. It is shocks like these that happy state. So essential is emotion turn their minds away from the world, considered for the very conception of and make them seek the highest happiness that the early European happiness in secluded meditation. scholars 'mistook the Jain and the
The above appeared in the Join Gazette, Durabigtig Nirvana kor annihilation, Allahabad for the months of October 1904 and which word they used to express the March 1905.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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