Selected Speeches of V R Gandhi

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi Godiji Jain Derasar Mumbai

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of study. Never in this method is brought into prominence the necessity of psychological and ethical improvement of the mind which wishes to study the great problems of life and the universe. Self-restraint, the first step in acquiring true knowledge, sacrifice of the cherished habits of mind, giving up of Dșşti-rāga, as we Jainas call it, which are in our opinion the sine qua non of full and clear understanding of the self and the non-self are seldom taken into consideration in the Western method of thinking.
This vice of popular method of thinking is specially apparent among religious propagandists and political leaders. Their idols symbolized in certain words remain always unflinching. Atheism, Father hood of God.
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