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.
amongst ourselves, we have discovered a real bond of one-ness of thought and creed between us and a vast section of our race. Those upon whom we have hitherto looked as strangers have been revealed to be near kinsmen. It is true that the old ideals are shattered to pieces, but in place of an idol of ignorant superstition and misunderstood myth, we have the God of real, living Truth before us to worship, and adore, and idolize.
We may now take up the question, how one desirous of getting into the Kingdom of God was to proceed? It is gratifying to observe that on this point there is a mass of injunctions and prohibitions which in some instances are quite explicit and complete in themselves. Before proceeding to discuss them, however, we would avail ourselves of the present opportunity to repeat that Jesus himself never desired to be worshipped, for otherwise all these directions and injunctions would have been quite useless and unnecessary. The fact that his discourses are full of instruction on the subject of emancipation, is the strongest indication that he was misunderstood. It was his word' that he wanted the people to believe in, not his person. He never told them that they were cleansed because they had seen, or worshipped, or lived with him, but he did say to them:
"Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."
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He loved only those who kept his word, and said :"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love (John, XV. 3). Ye are my friend if ye do whatsoever I command you (John XV. 14). He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father (John, XIV. 21). If you love me, keep my commandments (John, XIV. 15). And we will come unto him and make our abode