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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yea, he hath neither child nor brother” (Ecclesiastes, IV. 8); and with the joyous words : “I, even I, am the Lord ; and beside me there is no Saviour” (Isaiah, XLIII. 11), plunges into the Ocean of eternal blessedness and bliss, in its own self.
The attainment of immortality is possible for every one of the living beings in the course of one or more incarnations. If it were otherwise, it would never have been said :
“Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves and live ye."
Nor: “If the wicked restore the pledge and give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
About the time that the law was given to Moses, Jehovah is said to have put the matter before the people, saying:
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that thou and thy seed may live.”
To the same effect is the following: "I will ranson them (the virtuous) from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death; O death, I will be thy plagues : 0 grave, I will be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes."
As for the wicked, their paths are turned aside“they go to nothing, and perish." "As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up : 80 man lieth down and riseth not, till the beavens be no