Book Title: Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Old Edition 1894 Publication
Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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________________ 70 THE UNKNOWN LIFF OF JESUS CHRIST. Having learned perfectly thc Pali language, the just Issa devoted himself to the study of the sacred rolls of the Sutras. Six years afterwards, Issa, whom the Buddha hac chosen to spread the holy doctrinc, was able to cxplain perfectly the sacred rolls. Then he left Nepal and the Himalaya mountains, desccuded into clic valicy ul Rajputana and journeyed toward the west, preaching to various pcoplcs thc possibility of man's attaining the supreme perfection, And the good which each one should do to his neighbor, which is the surest means of being quickly absorbed into the Eternal Spirit; "he who had recovcred his primitive purity," Issa said, "would die having obtained pardon for his sins, and the right to contemplate the majestic figure of God." -7In traversing the heathen territories the divine Issa taught that the worship of visible gods was contrary to natural law. -- 8--- "For man," he said, "has not been favored with the power to see the image of God and to construct a host of divinities resembling the Eternal One." " Besides, it is incompatible with the human conscience to esteemn the grandeur of divine purity less than animals or works executed by the hand of man in stone or metal." ---10"The Eternal Legislator is one infinite; there are Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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