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substantial donatsons for supplying suitable sets of books to the researchers, and readers.
There is also a need that more and more learned Jain scholars, who can perferably speak in English, are sent to various countries regularly to give prepared and extempore lectures and have free discussions with the Jains, particularly the younger generation settled in many countries of the world. It will be advisable to form a suitable panel from which the scholars be sent regularly. The selection of the scholars should exclusively be on the basis of merits. It will be a laudable idea to create a suitable fund for this, out of the interest of which 5.0 scholars could be sent abroad every year.
The Jains settled abroad have a great desire to hear the cassettes of the sermons of Jain saints and of the Jain devotional songs. Efforts should therefore be that such cassettes are prepared in large number and distributed among many countries. India should certainly take a lead in all these matters.
It appears that the barriers at frontiers are breaking and the message of love and peace emerging from the great knowledge of past Tirthankaras and it will spread in whole of the world. The coming world will certainly be of those who love peace and shall live for peace.
Secretary General World Jain Congress. 688, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi-110001 (India)
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