Unknown Life of Jesus Christ New Edition 2009 Publication

Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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* The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
He spent six years in Jagannath, Rajagriha, Benares and other holy cities. Every one loved Issa, for he lived in peace with the Vaishyas and Shudras, to whom he taught the Holy Scripture.
But the Brahmins and Kshatriyas said to him that the great Para-Brahma had forbidden them to approach those whom he had created from his belly and from his feet; .
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That the Vaishyas were authorized to hear the reading of the Vedas only on the festival days,
8 That the Shudras were not only forbidden to attend the reading of the Vedas, but even to look at them; for their condition was to serve forever as slaves to the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas and even the Vaishyas;
“Death alone can free them from their servitude," ParaBrahma has said : "Leave them, therefore, and come and worship with us the gods that will be angry with you if you disobey them."
10 But Issa did not heed their words, and went among the Shudras to preach against the Brahmins and the Kshatriyas.
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He strongly denounced the doctrine that gives to men the power of robbing their fellow-men of their human rights; in truth, he said: “God the Father has established no difference between his children, who are all equally dear to him."