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THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
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The true Redeemer can come only from within, and to whomsoever He has come, He has come from within. He is then described as Christos, or Krishna, seated at the right hand of Power. It will be seen that quite a large number of the Biblical sayings which are meaningless and irrelevant with reference to Jesus acquire significant and lucid sense when applied to the Christ within. “ I am the resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live," " whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die," and other such expressions cannot be applied to Jesus without divesting them of their true sense. Similarly, the passage : “ There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in liis kingdom” (Matthew, XVI, 28), is robbed of its true merit if we take it to refer to Jesus, but is full of meaning when taken as alluding to the individual soul. Some one has well said :
* Though Christ a thousand times and more In Bethlehem's stall be born, If He's not born within thyself Thy soul is still forlorn,"
To have a perfect grasp of the subject, we must look a little more deeply into the idea of redemption from the point of view of Jainism. In the purity of its essence, the soul is blissful and omniscient, but its vision is obstructed by the contact of matter which it has absorbed. In this condition it is incapable of penetrating the veil of impurity with which it is enshrouded on all sides. Hence, if its vision be clarified by the removal of the material filth that obstructs it, it
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