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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Summary
Death alone can free them from the consequences of their life of servitude; in order to get this reward, however, they must have served for their whole life, without murmur or idleness, a member of one of the privileged classes. Then, only, after having performed with fidelity and zeal his duties in the service, of a Brahmin or a Kshatriya, has the Shudra the promise that his soul, after death, will be raised to a superior caste.
If a Shudra fails in his obedience towards a member of the privileged class or otherwise becomes disgraced, he is outcaste and degraded to the rank of a Paria, who is banished from all the towns and villages; he is the object of general scorn, is considered an abject creature, permitted to perform only the basest labour.
The same punishment may also be inflicted on a member of the other caste; but he, however, by repenting, fasting and penances can re-enter his former rank in the caste, while the unfortunate Shudra, once driven from his caste, is forever lost.
This explains the worship, by the Vaishyas and the Shudras, of Jesus, who although menaced by the Brahmins and Kshatriyas, continued teaching them.
Now, Jesus in his sermons censured not only the in ** describing a man of his rights as a man and the worship of a monkey, a piece of marble or metal, but also, he condemned the very principle of Brahmanism, its system of gods, its doctrines and its Trimurti, the corner stone of that religion.
Parabrahma is represented with three faces upon one head; this is the Trimurti composed of Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the preserver and Shiva, the destroyer.
The origin of the Trimurti is: In the beginning Parabrahma created the waters and in them cast the generative seed which transformed itself into a glowing egg reflecting the image of Brahma. Millions of centuries passed by when Brahma divided the egg into two parts, one of which the upper half became the
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