Jainism and World Problems

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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4. The Divinity of the soul:
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IDEALS FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER
"But the fruit of the spirit is (Galatians, v. 22).
"Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross (Heb., xii. 2).
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joy.
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"And exultation is said to be gladness... which is according to truth through a kind of exhilaration and relaxation of the soul" (A.N.C. Lib., xii. 361).
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peace"
"I said, Ye are gods" (John, x. 34).
"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" (Philippians, ii. 5-6).
"For once the crown of righteousness encircles thy brow, thou hast become God... Thou hast been deified and begotten unto immortality . . . This constitutes 'know thyself,' or, in other words, learn to discover God within thyself" (A. N. C. Lib., vi. 402).
All souls of a like nature :
"Because as he is, so are we in this world (1 John, iv. 17).
"... For souls themselves by themselves are equal" (A.N.C. Lib., xii. 362).
"... If the heavenly virtues, then, partake of intellectual light, i.e., of divine nature, because they participate in wisdom and holiness, and if human souls have partaken of the same light and wisdom and thus are mutually of one nature and of one, essence... then, since the heavenly virtues are incorruptible and immortal, the essence of the human soul will also be immortal and incorruptible" (A.N.C. Lib., x. 353).
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