Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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REDEMPTION.
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apilt some two thousand years ago, be the sole channel and means of salvation, those for whom it was shed, and also those who claim the benefit of its having been shed, ought to enjoy the status of the redeemd from the moment they make up their minds to acknowledge his agency. Yet, none but a madman may urge that claim on behalf of the adherents of the orthodox clerical views on the subject.
The fact is that the true conception of redemption, in religion, is not exhausted with the remission of sin, or escape from the liability to punishment, but contains, within its four corners, the additional idea of an enlargement of the spiritual personality, by the restoration of the powers and attributes hitherto held in 'pledge." Necessarily, then, must the conception of redemption include the idea of a life fuller and more glorious and abundant than that which is the lot of man in the state of sin. The word salvation, in its true significance, conveys precisely this sense, meaning, as it does, health, safety, and wholeness.
It is not difficult to observe how lanie and impoverished has the true teaching of the Saviour become in the hands of his followers. Unable to form a clear idea of the state of consciousness which is denominated blissful, the followers of Jesus have reduced his conception of heaven to that of a locality, where, on a certain day, after the death of the physical body, men shall rise, in the bodies of flesh, and pass their lives in the enjoyment of Olympian luxuries. They fail to observe that the highest flights of their theological speculation do not rise higher than the idea of sense gratification, which is all that can be