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114 1111: UNKNOWS LIFE OF JESCS CHRIST. public discussions with the Brahmins who tried to convince bim of the sacred character of thcir estab. fished customs.
Anong other things Jesus denounced the injustice of humiliating the laborer (they not only deprived him of the right of future happiness, but also denied him the right to attcnd religious sermons). And Jesus began to preach to the Shudras, the lowest caste of slaves, teaching them that there is one God only according to their own laws, that all there is exists only through Him, that with Him all are equal, and that the Brahmins liad obscured the great principle of monotlicism in perverting the words of Brahma himself, and in insisting strongly on the external ceremonies.
According to the doctrines of the Brahmins, this is what God speaks of Himself to the angels: "I have been since ctcrnity and forever will I bc; I am the first cause of all that cxists in the cast and in thc west, in the northi and in the south, above and below, in heaven and in hell. I am older than all things, I am the Alll'owerful; I am the God of Gods; the Kings of Kings; I ain Parabrahma, the great soul of the universe."
After the world had appcarcd by the mere desire of Parabrahma, God created men whom He arranged in four classes according to this color: white (Bralımins), red (Kshatriyas), yellow (Vaishyas) and black (Shudras).
Brahma drew the first from his own mouth and give them as their portion the government of the world, the duty of tcaching thic men the laws and healing and of judging them. As the Brahmins only occupy the offices of priests, teachers and commentators of the Vedas, they alone should observe celibacy.
The second casłe, that of the Kshatriyas, came from the hand of Brahma. Ile made them warriors,
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