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 KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak."-(John, XII. 44-50).
So far as the idea of the 'Father' is concerned, it can be best understood by putting ourselves in the attitude of Philip, one of the twelve disciples, who said to Jesus (John, XIV. 8): “Lord show us the Father, and it sufficeth us."
Jesus, however, did not show the Father 'bodily' to Philip, but simply left him to draw his own conclusions from the following statement :
If you have seen me you have seen the Father, for I am in the Father and the Father is in me. I do not speak to you of myself, but the Father who dwelleth in me doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me.'-(John, XIV. 9-11).
It was the old doctrine of the one in the many and the many in one that Jesus taught, his disciples. A somewhat similar doctrine is propounded in the Bhagavad Gita in the following words :
* Without and within all beings, immovable and also movable; by reason of His subtlety imperceptible; at hand and far away is That. Not divided among beings and yet seated distributively; That is to be known as the supporter of beings. He devours and He generates."-Disc. XIII, 15-16).
But the resemblance is only superficial, for while the Bhagavad Gita makes the divine immanence absolute and universal, Jesus only regarded it as limited and qualified. According to the one, God's pervasion is already and eternally complete, but according to the other it has to be established. This will be easily seen to be the case with reference to the parable of the true vine, which Jesus propounded in the following words :
"I am the vine, ye are the branches, he that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and