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TIIE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. 69
-24" Because on the day of the last Judgment, tlic Shu. uras and thic Vaishyas shall be pardoned on account of their ignorance; on the other hand, God will pour His wrath upon those who have arrogated His rights."
---25" The Vaishyas and the Shudras greatly admired these words of Issa, and begged him to teach them how to pray, so that they might secure their happiness."
--26 He said to them: "Do not worship idols, for they clo not hcar you; do not listen to the Vedas, in which the truth is perverted; do not believe yourselves superior to others cvcrywhere; do not humiliate your ncighbor."
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"Help the poor, sustain the feeble; do no evil to anyonc: do not covet wbat others possess and you do
not."
VI.
The white priests and the warriors having Icarnt of the discourse which Issa had addressed to the Shudras, determined upon his death, and with this intention sont their servants to search for the young prophct.
---2But Issa, warned of the danger by the Shudras, left Jagannath by night, rcached thc mountains, and established himself in the country of the Gautamides, where the great Buddha Shakya-Muni was born, amidst the people who worshiped the one and only sublime Brahma
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