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Tolerance in Jaina Religion: Through the Ages : 101 categorically declares that those praising their own faith and views and censuring other's, accumulate malice against them hence remain engrossed in the cycle of birth and death. Attitude Significant towards rightness or Falsehood of scriptures: According to Jainas the sole yardstick for measuring falsehood or rightness of any scripture is one's attitude. It is the attitude of followers that makes a scripture true or false. A false scripture is a right scripture for the one with right attitude and right scripture is a false one for a person of perverse attitude. Democratic Approach to the path of Liberation: The term democratic itself is self-explanatory. Just as no discrimination is made on the basis of birth, caste, creed, gender etc. Similarly, door of liberation is open to all the salvable selves irrespective of their birth, creed, gender etc. Liberation is not the prerogative of only the followers of Jina Order according to them. The varieties of liberated souls expounded in Jaina canon-is testimony to this:By eliminating the vices of attachment and aversion only one can attain emancipation. One who attains equanimity of mind will certainly attain liberation, whether a Svetāmbara or Digambara or Buddhist or anyone else 46 (Seyambarovā asambarovā buddhovātahevaanno vasābhāvabhaviyappālahaimukkham nasarndeho). Not only regarding the destination i.e. liberation but about its means also the Jaina approach is quite liberal. In attaining the liberation not the external mode of worship but it is theright attitude that matters. A person is spiritual by his intrinsic purity and not by the external practices. The significance of right attitude is well established by these words of Mahāvīra, the practices considered to be the cause of bondage may be the cause of liberation also. (jeässavā te parissavā, je parissavā te āssavā.) Ācārya Haribhadra“ also maintains that external appearances, dress codes etc. in no way, are of any worth. What matters is the control over passions. Neither non-clad nor clad in white, neither a logician nor a metaphysician, also not a
