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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case impotence is congenital. In the second group fall. all those unfortunate captives of war, slaves, and others, whose masters, or guardians, have them operated upon to deprive them of their manhood. But the third class. consists of those pure and divine souls who have completely subdued their sexual passion to enter into LifeEternal. These alone are blessed; for they have adopted the life of celibacy of their own free-will and choice, not by force of circumstances beyond their control, nor from worldly motives. Theirs is the purest motive, and, naturally, theirs, also, is the bliss of Nirvana.
RESURRECTION.
So far as marital relation is concerned, two ideasare involved in its proper functioning, namely, the element of physical necessity and that of spirituality. The former alone is recognized, and forms the basis of society in Europe and among non-Indian races, where marriage is taken to be a civil contract, more or less binding on the parties, according to the requirements of the society to which the wedded couple belong. True marriage,. however, means all that it means to these races of men, and, in addition, the union of souls for uplifting the condition of the participants for their mutual, spiritual advancement. There is no room for brute carnality here, and although it is not necessary to crush out, or subdue, the natural demands of human nature, the parties remain unmoved by the presence of each other, except with the common idea of co-operating with the laws of nature, and for the unfoldment of the best within them. And, if the law be as Jesus declared it to be-
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Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as