Sannyasa Dharma

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

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womb by the forces of magnetic attraction operating on it, through the electric material of those inner vestments, and is re-born elsewhere in due course of time, with a new outer bodily cover. We must therefore distinguish this, the suicidal, form of death from the idea of death in the Pauline Epistle referred to above. The distinction consists in the cessation of sin, which is destroyed by dying in the proper way and which continues in the ordinary mode of demise. St. Paul, therefore, correctly says: "For he that is dead is freed from sin " (Romans, v. 7). We must not, of course, take it to mean death in the normal sense; what is meant is only for he that is dead to the body, etc.' The problem, then, is how to die so as to be alive ever more thereafter, in other words, how to die while fully alive all the time? The answer to this is given in the 10th verse of the next chapter where it is said :
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"And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness."
The idea of Christ has been explained in my other writings, and is that of the spiritual Ideal of the Soul which is a great mystery. St. Paul says of this mystery that it was kept secret began (Romans, xvi. 25). In the
since the world Epistle to Ephesians
(chap. iii. 3-4) we are told:
Whereby, when ye road, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ."
This is repeated in the Epistle to Colossians (chap. ii. 2-3):
"That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
"In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
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