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A.-This thing, of course, can be believed as an article of faith, but it cannot be established by proof. The same reasoning which I have advanced above to disprove the godly character of Gita and the Vedas can usefully be applied to Bible as well. You will keep in mind God is a perfect Being liberated from the cycle 3 of birth and death, therefore a being who gets incarnated or takes birth can never be a God. As birth is the result of attachment and aversion and God is devoid of these blemishez so God can never be conceived to be assuming births and incarnations. Allegorically, of course, Jesus can be taken to be a son of God, but rationally such a belief is untenable. How there can be a son to a liberated God ? If for sake of argument, it may be taken to be true, then how this birth will be conceived to have taken place. Still further if this relationship of father and son be taken to be eternal, then how this relationship will hold good ? All these things are worth consideration in this connection. As far as I think, these things when analysed would never come true.
15. PROPHECY OF OLD TESTAMENT
Q-The prophecy about Jesus in the Old Testament has come out to be true. How do you explain it?
A.-It does not alter the position. It may be so, still we have to Judge the validity of the testimony of both the Testaments. Moreover such a Prophecy about Jesus' birth is no sound proof of his being an incarnation of God, because such prophecies of birth are possible to be made on the basis of astrology etc. It is also possible that Jesus birth might have been prophesied by some person by intuition, but in the absence of cogent
proof it cannot be accepted. And such sooth-sayers cannot be held to be omniscient teachers. Such a prophecy appears to be based more on faith than any reasoning for there are so many difficulties in the way of its being accepted as true.
16. MIRACLES IN BIBLE Q.-There are so many miracles about Jesus narrated in Bible, what do you say about them?
A.-It is quite impossible for a dead body to be resurrected by the entry of the soul which has left it, or by some other soul. If such a thing begins to happen, then the whole science of causation of birth and death will come to an end. But there is no gainsaying the fact that various sorts of miraculous powers are achieved by spiritual discipline and yogic practices. It is all within the pale of possibility that Jesus also might have attained several of these powers, but mind, such powers are far inferior to the glory of omnipotent soul. Glory and grandeur of soul is infinite. You may better discuss this point when we meet.
17. PAST AND FUTURE INCARNATIONS
Q.-Is it possible for us to know about our future and past births ?
A.-Yes, it is possible. Men of unblemished knowledge can know such things by intuition Even ordinary people can know them by logical reasoning. Just as by looking to the clouds & other symptoms of weather a rainfull can be ascertained, so by looking to the tendencies of a being, it is easy determine his previous set of life which led to his present birth. By this
