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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The same ought to be the case with redemption in the spiritual sense. If the theological interpretation of the doctrine is correct, why is it that the enjoyment of benefits arising from the acknowledgment of Jesus must be postponed to an indefinite point of time in the future? Why is it, we repeat, that we do not immediately come into the realization of the redeemed bliss, here and now ? As Tennyson says,
"'Tis life, not death, for which we pant; More life and fuller that we want."
REDEMPTION.
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Moreover, common sense shows that redemption is possible only by paying off the pledge,, not by the acknowledgment of the pledgee, or his son, as a worldsaviour; and where the liability to be discharged consists in refraining from abandoning oneself to the knowledge of good and evil of the phenomenal things, in other words, from sensual lusts, it is absolutely inconceivable how any one else but the pledgor himself can ever acquit him of the debt. The truth is that the Church has no idea of the true significance of the doctrines of 'fall' and 'redemption,' and is, consequently, unable to give us a foretaste of the bliss of being saved which every practical religion should be in a position to do.
The explanation of the mystery of the fall' has practically qualified us for a comprehension of the doctrine of redemption. For, just as fall signifies mortality, imperfection and unhappiness for the human race, so is redemption the door to immortality, perfection and joy. The former indicates a condition of existence in which the true attributes of the divinity residing in the temple of the body are suppressed on account of an all-absorbing