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AMAR VANI
Jainism says "You should consider and love all the creatures of the world as you consider and love your soul. Seek your own self in every living creature."
The Spirit of Religion
A religion that is propagated by the power of the sword can never be a true religon. In the same way, a religion that is promoted through temptations of gold and silver can have no true religious spirit in it. True religion transcends all considerations of fear and temptations, and it promotes the feelings of asceticism, renunciation, universal fraternity and love.
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Religion Joins: It does not Sever
A religion that gets defiled by taking food at one place or the other, or by touching one man or the other, and which differentiates between man and man, is no religion; it is a negation of religion, a great sin. The function of religion is to join and weave the different links of humanity into a wreath and not to throw them asunder.
Truth
Truth is a flaming spark. It can burn into ashes thousands of tons of wood of falsehood. It is a divine flame of fire which can burn away all sins and evils. It lightens up life with a divine spiritual lustre.
The Setting of Fire is Beyond Us
The religion that believes in arson and murders is no religion at all. True religion should quench the flaming
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