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OHAPTER VI. THE KINGDOM OF GOD. * Hari Om! Now, within this habitation of Brahman (the human body) there is a small lotus-like chamber, and within it a minute vacuity (antarakasa.) That which is within the vacuity is worthy of search : that, verily, should be enquired after." -Ohhand. Up. VIII 1.1.
“Here in the heart is a cavity, wherein he resides, the Lord of the universe, the Ruler of the universe, the Chief of the universe."
Bri, Up. IV. 4. 22. There can be no doubt but that the 'message' which Jesus of Nazareth desired to communicate to the world bas not been so communicated, and there can be no doubt equally that in apportioning the blame his disciples come in for a major portion of it. For precision and consistency of thought are necessary for philosophy; and it is in respect of them that the disciples of Jesus were constantly found wanting, notwithstanding their general familiarity with the principles and tenets of mysticism, which they have freely introduced into their writings. Ernest Renan observes :
“The evangelists themselves, who have bequeathed us the image of Jesus, are so much beneath him of whom they speak that they constantly disfigure him from their inability to attain to his heights. Their writings are full of errors and misconceptions. We feel in each line a discourse of divine beauty, transcribed by narrators who do not understand it, and who substitute their own ideas for those which they have only half understood. On the whole, the character of Jesus, far from having been embellished by his biographers, has been lowered by them. Criticism, in order to find what he was, needs
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