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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Emotions of misery and fear arise from wrong suggestions which are accepted and acted upon by the soul. We must now determine to cure ourselves by auto-suggestions of a counter nature. Faith is the little seed which is to be sown, and it will do the rest ; for belief translates itself into action without fail. It is the faith in the presence of God, in each and every one of us, that will do the work of redemption ; belief in the existence of God as a solitary being sitting on high, and ruling the world, will be of no avail; for the suggestion of inferiority will still remain before the soul and produce its evil effect. Man must approach God from within, not from without.
Such is the conception of the Kingdom of God which Jesus preached. Christians generally consider it to be an affair of the other world, where there is a geographical heaven into which all those who worship the God of Israel will be admitted on the Judgment Day, after this earth shall have passed away. How far this harmonizes with the promise of Jesus himself can be seen by a reference to one of his great sayings :
* Blessed are the meek : for they shall inherit the earth." (Matt. V. 5.)
Now, if the earth is to pass away before the day of final judgment, what shall the meek inherit ? The truth is that, being incompetent to understand and realize the blessedness of the Kingdom of God and the blessings which a belief in their Godhood can confer upon men, here and now, the ignorant interpreters of the word of the Saviour ascribed its fulfilment to an unseen, future world, strengthened, in their conceit, by the notion that from