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former worldly abilities like organising power are required, for the latter, however, disinterested love for general good, and absence of all wordly end are essential Lord: Mahăvîra made them subordinate, and attached highest importance to the true welfare of the Living world and had exerted the most to engrewe on the hearts of Man, His own ç.inciples sipe with experience Today not a single adherent of Goshalā is traceable in India, and now. here can we find even a single mark of his principles, whereas the numerical strength of Lord Mahävir today is as much as fifteen lacs. Where as in the case of Buddha, his tenets are nowhere followed in India, whereas Jainism because of its depth of principles has sustained itself firmly and steadfastly through all clashing and uneasy troubles. This is all due to the way of Lord Mahâvîr's Teachings.
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