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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these features of imperfection, but it is impossible to say that it accounts for them all. It is not to be supposed, however, that Jesus did not possess great wisdom and insight, since one may be a wise man without being the founder of a system of philosophy. His discourses bear ample testimony to the ready wit and resourcefulness of his mind. To read his teachings from a purely materialistic point of view is to do him the greatest injustice; they have to be read in the light of the lamp of "Vedanta," literally, the end, i.e., the last word of knowledge.
To revert to the teaching of Jesus, another point which throws considerable light on the doctrine of the 'Kingdom of God," is the nature of the qualifications which are necessary for an admission into heaven. On this point it is pleasant to note that there is quite a wealth of material, although most of it is a repetition of the same principle over and over again. Without going into unnecessary detail, the young Master declared that the Kingdom was intended for the poor, the meek, the merciful, the peacemaker, and for those who mourned, or hungered for righteousness, or were pure in heart. In the parable of the supper, the guests who were ultimately invited were the poor, the maimed, the halt and the blind. To literally construe the doctrine would be to put the Kingdom on a par with an alms-house, a dispensary or an infirmary where poverty and rags and deformity and disease might form the most prominent qualifications for admission. To think that it was this idea which the Saviour was preaching to the people, and over which he was con
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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.