Gandhis Teachers Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta

SR No.: 006754
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satish Sharma
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 260
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Rajchandra
File Size: 11 MB

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Gandhi and Rajchandra : Question and Answers
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dependent on others and even in the highest heaven it is not taken to be free from limitations and bondages. In Christian scriptures, very little light has been thrown on real intrinsic nature of soul, nor is there any systematic description of the causes of birth, death, and other various vicissitudes of life, and nor have the scriptures dealt with right ways and methods for removal of the causes of birth, death, and vicissitudes. For these reasons, Christianity does not appeal to me to be the highest religion. This opinion of mine is not based on any religious prejudice. If you want to know anything further in this connection, I shall try to elucidate.
Q. 14 It is a matter of faith with the Christians that Bible is the word of God and Jesus Christ is His son. What is your opinion about it?
A. This of course can be taken as a matter of faith, but it cannot be established by proof. The same reasoning which I have advanced above to disprove the Godly character of Gita and the Vedas, can usefully be applied to Bible as well. You will keep in mind that God is a perfect Being liberated from the cycles of birth and death. Therefore a being who gets incarnated or takes birth can never be a God. As birth is the result of attachment and aversion and God is devoid of these blemishes, so God can never be conceived to be assuming births and incarnations. Allegorically, of course, Jesus can be taken to be a son of God, but rationally such a belief is untenable. How can there be a son to a liberated God? If for the sake of an argument it may be taken to be true, then how this birth will be conceived to have taken place. Still further, if this relationship of father and son be taken to be eternal, then how this relationship will hold good? All these points are worth consideration in this connection. As far as I think, the proposition when analyzed would never come true.
Q. 15 The prophecy about Jesus in the Old Testament has come to be true. How do you explain it?
A. It does not alter the position. It may be so, still we have to judge the validity of testimony of both the Testaments. Moreover such a prophecy about Jesus' birth is no sound