The Occult Powers May Be

In Western Lands There Is A Distinct Division Between The Religious And The Secular Life. There Is One Rule Of Conduct For Laymen And Another For Clergymen. This Distinction Has Never Found Its Place In The Life Of The People Of India. There, All Of Life Is Included In The Word 'religion.'

If A Person's Mind Is Controlled By Forces Of Revenge And Jealousy, It Cannot Express Love & Sympathy. And Even If They Show Love And Sympathy To Others It Will Yield No Good Result. The Thought Will Not Be Reflected In Love But In Hate.

We All Understand That The Debasement Of A Nation's Coinage Is Very Pernicious And Must Prove Disastrous To Its Commerce. How Much More Dangerous Is The Debasement Of The Spiritual Coinage!

I Have Heard Your Orators Speak On Many Questions. One Among Them The So-called Vital Question Of Money Which Is Above All Things The Most Coveted Commodity But I, As A Jainist, In The Name Of My Countrymen And Of My Country, Would Offer You As The Medium Of The Most Perfect Exchange Between Us, Henceforth And Forever, The Indestructible, The Unchangeable, The Universal Currency Of Good Will And Peace, And This, My Brothers And Sisters, Is A Currency That Is Not Interchangeable With Silver And Gold, It Is A Currency Of The Heart, Of The Good Life, Of The Highest Estate On The Earth.

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.