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THE JAINA GAZETTE
means the purification of the heart. Clement of Alexandria
tells us :
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The Saviour himself enjoins, watch, as much as to say 'Study to live and endeavour to separate the soul from the body."
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In one of his many Epistles St. Paul describes the antagonism between the spirit and the flesh, the one being contrary to the other, and finally winds up with the most impassioned ejaculation; O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
The divinity of the soul is asserted quite plainly in the Bible when it is said, "I have said Ye are Gods." This declaration is fully confirmed in the new Testament where with reference to it it is said that the scripture cannot be falsified.' In the first gospel we have the exhortation :
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." In Phillippians we are told :
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in 'Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God. These are but a few quotations that bear out what I have said to-day. I have recently collected, under appropriate heads, a certain number of the Biblical quotations which amply prove the statement that the true foundation of the Biblical Religion was also laid on the very same principles which are embodied in the Jaina Siddhanta (System of Philosophy). This collection has been published under the title, Glimpses of a Hidden Science in Original Christian Teachings,'
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On the practical side, you have the same teaching about the crushing out of the element of desire in Christianity. The world is described as ranged in a direction opposed to divinity's; he who would aspire to become perfect must not look at her. The culmination may be said to have been reached when it is said: not his father, and and sisters, and his
"If any man come after me and hate mother, and wife, and children, and brethein, own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
