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 KINGDOM OF GOD.
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his life is shrouded in mystery. According to some thinkers cogent evidence exists and has been discovered of his having visited Tibet and India. It is also said that there is a grave of his in Kashmere which he visited in his youth, and where he settled down after the * resurrection. Swami Rama Tirtha and other travellers have discovered a remarkable similarity between the names of certain places in Kashmere and of those in Palestine (see the Proceedings of the Convention of Religions for 1909, pp. 197-201). Even an old manuscript has been recovered from a Tibetan monastery in which the important events of the life of Jesus, as a traveller from Palestine, are chronicled. Add to this long array of facts the most important one of all that his teachings are undoubtedly based on a well-grounded fabric of Hindu philosophy and embody the results of a carefully sifted and well assimilated knowledge of the different views then prevailing among the numerous sects and schools in India. His retirement into forest for a period of forty days to observe fasting and other forms of austerities was in itself an event unheard of amongst the Israelites, but a common occurrence (indeed, one of the ashramas, or periods, into which the span of earthly life has been divided for the three regenerate classes of the Hindus) in India, enjoined by the scriptures, particularly those of the Jaina and Yoga schools of thought. Not only are his teachings -in some instances almost word for word—the same as are to be found in Hinduism and other religions of India, but, also, is his whole life, as the Messiah, the same as is enjoined on a Yogi, for which no parallel is