Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 1

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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SUMMING UP
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welfare of living beings is the sole interest and passion. The weal of the common man is their own weal. They do not want to enjoy their own happiness when the rest of mankind is entangled in suffering due to want of the light of knowledge. The unceasing cultivation of knowledge is only a reflex of selflessness. Those who make it an instrument of personal aggrandizement are guilty of committing profanity of a sacred mission. The propagation of science and the cultivation of humanities owe their inception to disinterested love of knowledge and love for fellow-beings. It will be a bad day for mankind if the centres of education are annihilated and men are taught to become misologists. This will lead to total degeneration and atavism to primitive savagery. The present-day wanton crusade against educational centres carried on by teen-agers at the behest of disgruntled politicians in India must be smashed to pieces and no quarter is to be shown to the misguided enemies of culture. We hope that these orgies of madness will prove to be a temporary lapse and not a permanent holiday from sanity.