What is Jainism

SR No.: 006714
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Total Pages: 210
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES in other words, how to die while fully alive all the time? The answer to this is given in the 10th verse of the next chapter where it is said :
"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness."
The idea of Christ has been explained in my other writings, and is that of the spiritual Ideal of the Soul which is a great mystery. St. Paul says of this mystery that it was kept secret since the world began (Romans xvi. 25). In the Epistle to. Ephesians (Chap. iii. 3-4), we are told :
“Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.”
This is repeated in the Epistle to Colossians (Chap. ii. 2-3):. “That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ :
" In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
The Gospels, in reality, only aim at uncovering the secret in a guarded way. The apostle's hesitation is evident from his language (Ephesians, vi. 19–22) :
“And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospels,
"For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.
“But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things :
“Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.”
I shall not dwell on the mystery of the Bible or of the Biblical teaching any longer here, as I have explained it fully in my earlier works, e.g., the ‘Key of Knowledge.' It will be sufficient to point out here that this great mystery is centred in the life of the Soul which is its own God, but which is deprived of its natural status and glory on account of the bondage of sin (=wrong doing, i.e., karmas). How may the release of this divinity be accomplished is the one theme of Religion. This great truth about the divinity of the