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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were utterly unable to comprehend it, and were thus constantly at cross purposes with its propounder. The attitude of the Jews was not strange either. It was the attitude which ignorance always assumes under such circumstances. Whenever any new doctrine is preached or any new possibility discovered and made known, people say: 'Our ancestors did not believe in it, nor practised it; art thou greater than they ?'
There has always been what is called public opinion against all new discoveries and sciences. It was in consequence of his miracles that Jesus increased the number of his followers, and it was due to his doctrine that he generally managed to lose them, as John records.* There was that in his doctrine which led many persons to consider him of unsound mind. Even his own brothers did not believe him to be sane. Yet when we sit down coolly to understand the real sense of those very passages which were the main causes of misunderstanding, we find them not only consistent with one another, but, also, with the highest form of thought which it has ever been the privilege of mankind to know. Shall we sacrifice Truth for the sake of a false pride in our misplaced belief in the “traditions of men”? Shall we reject the Light of Wisdom, because it was taken from India and did not originate in Palestine ? Shall we reject Jesus, because he had learnt what he preached at some time from some one else? Or shall we uncover our heads and show reverence to the real living Truth, irrespective of the channel whence it flows? We ought to rejoice that, instead of being estranged and divided
* John, VI. 66.