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dom or wealth. His mind was fixed on the worship of the lotus feet of Jinendra; so he asked a gift for the temple of the Jina. This is the Jain ideal. For the modern world infatuated with the greed of wealth and kingdoms, such an ahimsic ideal has little attraction. Ahimsa is the greatest power and it is the only panacea for all human ills. Jain kings, queens, generals, warriors, merchants and people of all other shades followed its cult and became great heroes. Even against their persecutors Jains showed no feeling of revenge, rather they treated them as friends. Ahimsa has allowed them to survive to this day. Without doubt Ahimsa will prevail in the end and create the true spirit of heroism to ban the inhumane and barbarous acts of modern bloodshed and warfare. Let the world repeat again and again the mantra (aphorism) taught by the great hero Vardhamana that reads:
"Fight with your self, why fight external foes? He who conquers himself through him self, will obtain happiness."
"The capital is human life, the gain is heaven through the loss of that capital man must be born as a denizen of hell or a brute animal. He who brings back his capital is to be compared to one who is born againas a man": -END
