{"quotes":[{"text":"The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["ahimsa","compassion","evolution","inspirational","jainism","live","living-life","motivational","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace","religion","universe"],"id":19027,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.","author":"Lord Mahavira","tags":["answer","awakening","bad","broad-mindedness","equanimity","equilibrium","goal","good","jainism","life","lord","love","mahavira","non-absolutism","rational","relativity","religion","religious","seeking-truth","sleeping","truth","ultimate","ultimate-answer","wisdom","words-of-wisdom","world","yin-yang"],"id":27451,"author_id":"Lord+Mahavira"},{"text":"The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.","author":"Swami Vivekananda","tags":["buddhism","god","hinduism","jainism","religion","self-realization"],"id":85965,"author_id":"Swami+Vivekananda"},{"text":"We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["19th-century-philosopher","brotherhood","compassion","famous","gandhi","india","indian","indian-philsophers","inspirational","jainism","justice","karma","karmic","law","motivational","peace","quotes","to-live-by","salvation","science","scientific-principles","universal-brotherhood","virchand-gandhi","world-peace"],"id":136942,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"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 purify Christianity and bring it back to the religion of Christ, the result would be to reform it out of existence. Christianity stands to-day completely explained. Every step in its development is laid bare and shown to be due to purely natural causes, and it is easy to see how much Christianity adopted from other and older religions.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["christ","christianity","clergymen","copy","corruption","jainism","jesus","jesus-christ","natural-causes","pagan-influence","plagiarism","purify","reform","religion","superstition"],"id":156849,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.","author":"Mahavira","tags":["desires","ethical-teaching","ethics","golden-rule","hurt","jain","jainism","lord","lord-mahāvīra","mahaveer","mahavira","morality","pain","quote","right","tolerance","words"],"id":164641,"author_id":"Mahavira"},{"text":"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.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["commerce","commercialization","currency","earth","exchange","gold","good-will","heaven","india","indian","jainism","jains","money","peace","philosophers","philosophy-of-people","silver","virchand-gandhi"],"id":169347,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.","author":"Acharya Mahapragya","tags":["difficulty","friends","friendship","initmacy","jainism","life","moral","obligation","support","wisdom"],"id":185018,"author_id":"Acharya+Mahapragya"},{"text":"This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["brotherhood","country","family","inpirational","jainism","liberal","motivational","peace","unity","world"],"id":223831,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"},{"text":"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 pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. And still we hear the cry, 'The whole world for Christ'.","author":"Virchand Gandhi","tags":["angry-god","aspiration","atonement","blasphemous","blood","christ","christian-persecution","christianity","church","enlightenment","fact","fire","god","hatred","immoral","jainism","jesus","jesus-christ","nature","persecution","preposterous","science","tears"],"id":290054,"author_id":"Virchand+Gandhi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}