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________________ 10T world. Should my theory prove untrue, France wilt say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew." He explains his theory to these words, "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it is longer than a hour. This is relativity.” (Hitavada, 8th March, 1970). We must owe our allegiance not to our books but to unmasked truth. Blind faith in the perverted stand of our ancestors will put hurdles in the way of our intellectal as well as material advancement. Reality has no relationship with ancestors or antiquity or the views of the majority. The crucification of the idol of love and goodness-Jesus Christ, clearly proves that the majority-view should not always be supposed to reflect truth or justice. Reality is in fact related to Truth and Justice. It is associated with head and not counting of hands. The forgetfulness of this basic point has brought about tragedy of huge errors resulting in horrifying incidents in human history. The remarks of James Froude are illuminating, “We cannot make true things false or false things true by choosing to think them so, We cannot vote right into wrong or wrong into right. The eternal truths and rights and things exist fortunately inde pendent of our thoughts or wishes, fixed as mathe. matics inherent in the nature of Man and the world." Truth is not one-sided therefore one-sided view is sure to go against truth and reality. You cannot
SR No.011030
Book TitleMahavira Life and Philosophy
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorSumeruchand Diwakar Shastri
PublisherJain Mitra Mandal
Publication Year1975
Total Pages200
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size9 MB
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