Sannyasa Dharma

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

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obtained. 17-18):--
The Bible itself records (II Cor. iv.
“For our light afriction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us
a far exceeding and eternal weight of glory,"
" While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things
which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
Identically the same idea is expressed in the Epistle to Romans (Chap. viii. 18):
* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth
to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
Let the modern arm.chair critic reflect on these great sayings of serious men, which promise to the suffering humanity the attainment of the perfection that is divine and unexcelled-aye, the Perfection which people associate with their loftiest conception of Divinity and Godhood !
It will be now fully evident that the ideal in view in Christianity is identically the same as that which Jainism has been preaching all along, and that the attainment of it is also declared by these religions to be dependent on the complete separation of Spirit from Matter. The methods of the other religions have already been studied in other works by the present writer, and need not be gone into herë afresh. The observations bere made are to be taken as supplementing the notes on the Jewish and Christian doctrines examined in my other books, and should, if possible, be read along with them.
Printed from. The jaira Gazette,
1925.