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(1) For the Individual, Jainism points out that the Soul is a simple substance as distinguished from a compound which survives bodily death, because death only overtakes compound things, but not simple elements. It cannot, therefore, die out, and will have to re-incarnate elsewhere. The organizing forces of the body are the energies which constitute its disposition or will. The will is constantly undergoing modification in consequence of individual action, so that the future conditions of life will be controlled altogether by the kind of disposition one makes for oneself. There is no condition of embodied life that is not threatened with calamity and death, nor any that is free from misery and pain. But those who live on the principle of ahimsă, scon succeed in destroying their animal nature, and thus become freed from the disposision that is the cause of re-incarnation and suffering in the world.
Soul-nature is a thing that is purely divine, so that when one attains to the purity of his soul nature, one comes into the enjoyment of Unlimited Knowledge, and Happiness, and Power, and Immortality. It is, therefore, clearly to the advantage of the individual to practise Universal Love. There is no other way of escaping from undesirable re-births,
Materially also, the practising of such virtues as truthfu!ness, justice, forgiveness, mercy, self-denial, and temperance must bring Peace of Mind, popularity, respect, and prosperity to the individual He can have No Enemies left in the world, but only Friends all round.
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National Point of View-abimsa will be found to be the source of confidence and good-will. It wil! do away with the need for heavy armaments; it will not tol ra e long-range guns, nor poison-gas, nor the bombing of cities and suburbs from aeroplanes. With the reduction of the military and the police, there will be immediately a reduction of taxation, and life will once more become tolerabie and joyous Nation will live at peate with nation; pass-ports will be unknown, so will
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