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when the pool is frozen, even if you drop a handful of pebbles in it, there is hardly any disturbance in its smooth, hard surface.
The mind reacts to circumstances by breaking into ripples of disturbance. One would say it is only natural. Perhaps, but is it inevitable? When the mind is trained to resist stoically all outward disturbances, it will acquire a calm that nothing can ruffle.
I hope I have succeeded in making it clear that these four principles, put into action guarantee the highest degree of happiness and peace within the whole brotherhood of all living beings. I wish they would be universally adopted and followed for the benefit of all living beings.
This, then, is the basis of Jain philosophy.
It is a philosophy which can be practised by a follower of any religion.
It is indeed very difficult to distil the elusive essence of religion so as to use it in your daily life, but he alone is truly religious who carries out the precepts of his religion in all his dealings with the world.
We have spoken at some length trying to explain the fundamental principles of our religions and how the essential elements in all are very similar.
Coming to the problems that face us, they, too, are essentially the same: the menace of destructive weapons of war, the malaise of racialism, the problem of economic imbalance and the unrest among our youth.
After having discussed Ahimsa, non-violence,
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