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on the unusual or miraculous or any sort of mysticism but on adherence to Truth and Non-violence. It is by law making bodies - but on the rule of unchangeable law as understood by the sages and given to us by those who have attained Perfection, the State of Perfect Knowledge Lord Mahavira has said :
"से असई उच्चागोए, मसइ णीयागोए, . .tot, ut tefato
"इह संखाए को गोयावाई, को माणावाई, कसि वा एगे गिज्ो।" "तम्हा पण्डिए, गोपीहए, णो हरिसे, णो कुझे।" आचारांग ॥३
"Simply by taking birth in a higher or lower caste, the soul itself has never been elevated or wasted as it has many a times been originated and have taken birth in those castes." As the soul has manifested itself in differeut castes and clans at different times, then in which will a sober man have fascination ? la which and in which not will be take
pride? Knowing this Truth well there will never be any · kind of yearning for a higher caste, on the part of a sensible or a rational soul for he will never be pleased himself for a high-born or repent himself for an ignoble's "To be bighborn or low-born will never make a man good or bad but his own actions either good or bad will surely prove his superiority or inferonty."
The Jain philosophy lays stress upon equal dignity for all; the doctrine of Lord Mahavira has crossed all barriers
