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.
257 tunately, he elected to pursue the latter, little thinking of the consequences that ensue from pursuing that path, although warned against it in clear terms. The result was that he fell from the state of bliss, and lost his immortality into the bargain. But Nature still holds these treasures in trust for him, and is ready to restore them to him the moment he gives up the pursuit of the wrong path which leads to suffering and death. Such is the true significance of Redemption in the Bible.
Jesus could have hardly committed the egregious blunder of preaching a future Kingdom of God, and yet all the time maintaining that the world was his (God's) footstool. Does not that which is a footstool form a part of the kingdom of him whose footstool it is ? The whole of the Gospel of St. John is full of passages establishing an identity between life and Christ. Jesus himself supported this view by such sayings as :
"I have power to lay it (the life) down, and I have power to take it again" (John, X. 18).
"I am the resurrection and the life " (John, XI. 25).
"Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"-(John, XI. 26).
Now let us substitute 'life' for 'me,' and the promise held out reads :“Whosoever liveth and believeth in life shall never die."
We already know that the only living substance or thing is spirit or soul which is the source of life. Jehovah himself said so much when he declared :
“That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life." (Deut. XX. 20).
It is the belief in the existence of the Sat-Chit
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