Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. But Christian clergymen are well aware that if they were to attempt to… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul. — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates,… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of enmity and hatred have been sown by the missionaries that it would be an almost Herculean task to establish better relations between India and America...… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share
“My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the prestige of the conqueror and backed by British bayonets, Christianity is not supported by the converts themselves. Every bit of Protestant Christianity in India is… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share
We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
