Vijaydharmasuri

Author(s): A J Sunavala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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INTRODUCTORY
We want men who will labour not only for the present generation, but also for the next and the succeeding ones; men who, seeing the miserable state of the religious world,—seeing the nobleand sacred faiths debased, the old and solemn rites and observances ridiculed and derided, the temples, the churches, the mosques, and the holy shrines thronged by hypocrites and mockers—burn with a desire to rekindle the fires of morality and spirituality upon the defiled and polluted altars, and bring back the knowledge and the wisdom of the ancient Gurus and Rishis within the reach of a sin-burdened world. The lives of such men will be a constant source of inspiration to those who are in the ditch of darkness, ever struggling against the storms of life, sometimes discouraged, sometimes disheartened over seeming failures, and even at times ready to give up the battle. The records of such careers will beckon the fallen to awake, to arise and forge forward in the fight of life, and will inspire both the young and the old to transmute their very failures into success.
LIFE, ITS END AND OBJECT Life, it has been truly observed, is Duty, and it seems that all worldly wisdom of the highest character is summed up by the poet in his two expressive lines 'I slept and dreamt that life was Beauty
I woke and found that life was Duty.' Life is, indeed, Duty, which means doing. There is a high purpose in it--something serious about it. It