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you dedicate it to a god-any god whether real or imaginary it matters not which he will be visualized in your consciousness. But it would no more be a real Christ that one saw that way than the Tomb of a saint if one visualized a tomb. It is no good telling me that the experience is a real thing to you. Every delusion of a monomaniac is always a real thing to him. This kind of inner experience is the last refuge of slovenly thought.
To put on Christ' does not mean that a WorldRedeemer can be put on like a garment by any one. We also have in the Christian literature the expression, 'Lest Christ be dead in you.' This would not mean the death of a World-Saviour any more than the expression let Christ be born in you' would indicate the birth of a World-Redeemer in you. These, and kindred expressions only signify one idea, namely, the entertainment of the conception of one's divinity, or the rejection of it by the mind. If the conception is entertained, you have 'put on Christ,' and you may say
Christ is born within you.' If having entertained the Right Faith you fall back again into error and misbelief 'Christ is dead' in you! There is no kind of inner experience which can be unscientific or destitute of a law. Jainism enables one to understand and analyse one's inner states and experiences fully at every stage.
We may take it that the authors of Christianity could have also explained many more things if they found their audiences eager to understand and grasp and retain. It is to the glory of Jainism that it is at once both simple and most elaborate and elegant. On
