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only a few persons in all communities. Then the ultimate truth cannot be realized by merely a philosophic discussion; it is only a means 10 the end.
What are after all the tenets of Jaina ethics and philosophy ? In a few words, Jainism is not a one-sided view of life. It upholds all views of life in a synthetic whole realized up to this time within it. Out of their different experiences and realizations about life, the Jain seers did not claim their thinking and experience as something novel but like the game of word-building. they uphold their views at the proper place alongside of other views of life realized by other fellow-seers of their times. This creative tendency has not allowed any branch of knowledge or thought to go astray, being incomplete in itself without serving a fruitful purpose. Instead. all different thoughts from different angles of vision thus derived and gathered to-gether formed a big brotherhood of life in Jainism. Before explaining this view of life. one might like to hear the opinions of some of the eminent scholars, thinkers and great men, which
