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all places? If sacrifices were efficacious, they should also have been reckoned as accessory to Yoga. But strange to say, this is not so.
Gentlemen, certainly the sects practising Yoga in ancient times must have been against Vedic sacrifices and slaughter of animals for any purpose whatsoever. You see the confirmation of this vicw at least in the case of one sect of the Yogis, the Jains. You must remcmbar that the Jains are the great : ogis. All Jain Tirthankaras 'vere great Yogis. All Jain monks were great Yogis. A Jain carinot obtain Muksha without practising Yoga Yogi is a necessary condition for killing the karmans and attaining Nirvara. Just sec our images in our temples. They are practising Yoga. Look to their Isana and Dhyana. Just see how they are alısorbed in meditation. This is the characteristic of Jain images. If you find any images practising Yoga?, it is the Jain. The Hiridu-images are not so. It is a pity that most people have failed to understand Jainism. People blame the Jains for worshipping naked i nages, but they never look to the Asana and Dhyana of those images. They never think that ihe Rishis being altogether absorbed in meditation, could not think or care to wear clothes. Then, gentlemen, the Jain Rishis were great Yogis and you know that their faith is
Ahimsa Parano Dharmah!
Here, gentlemen, I am struck with one circumstance. A Yogi is to practise the five Mahavratas or
