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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tends to make us blithesome, that is, blissful. This is how blessedness results from spiritual meekness. The same principle underlies all other injunctions of Jesus ; they all tend to make one“ perfect even as the Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Evil increases by resistance. Wickedness and villainy cannot bear reprimanding or remonstrance, however well meant. Hence, there is no good in criticizing the actions of the malevolent. They only feel angry and irritated when told to desist, and might become bitter enemies. The adept deals with them as does the Lord of the Day deal with those who grumble at him. He simply goes on shining and radiating and smiling, and does not withhold his light from any on the ground of enmity. The wicked are, however, unable to stand the higher vibrations of goodness and light, while the good thrive in them. The one dies of his wickedness, but the other thrives by his virtue. The fundamental basis of morality is not sentiment, or regard for public opinion, or any poetical sense of the words virtue and vice, but the principle we have just enunciated. Wickedness is short-lived, and cannot last long, however much it may seem to prosper in certain cases occasionally. He who aspires to become perfect like God must not only think of becoming so, but must also act like a God. Just as God does not allow wickedness to mar his ånanda, and regards both the good and the wicked with equanimity, so should the aspirant after bliss look upon all beings alike; he should be a well-wisher of all, but a hater of none. Harsh words and ill-timed disputations can only create friction and discord ; they give rise to
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