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JAINISM AND CHRISTIANITY 269 d. “And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life."-Matt. XIX. 29.
10. The path of progress is threefold.
a. “I am the way, the truth, and the life"- John XIV. 6. Here the way stands for Right Faith, the truth for Right Knowledge and the life for the proper mode of living or Right Conduct.
The following quotalion is still more striking.
b. “Right Faith is...... a comprehensive knowledge of the essentials ; and knowledge is the strong and sure demonstration of what is received by faith, built upon faith......conveying the soul on to infallibility, science, and comprehension......the first saving change is that from heathanism to faith......and the second that from faith to knowledge. And the latter terminating in love, thereafter gives the loving to the loved.-.A. N. Lib XII. (Clement, 2.) p. 447–448.
C. “Love is.the keeping of commandments which leads to Knowledge. And the keeping of them is the establishment of commandments from which immortality results."—Ibid p. 375.
11. Deification the result of right action.
a. “Knowledge is...... followed by practical wisdom, and practical wisdom by self-control; for it may be said that practical wisdom is divine knowledge, and exists in those who are deified." A. N. Lib. XII. p. 378.
12. The effect of Deification.
a. “There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."-Revelation XXI. 4.
b. “In the soul the pain is gone, but the good remains ; and the sweet is left, but the base wiped away. For there are two qualities characteristic of each soul, by which is known that which is glorified, and that which is condemned.". A. N. Lib. Vol. XII.
p. 364. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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