What is Jainism

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

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ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES (d) “... to be a light, steady, and continuing eternally,
entirely and in every part immutable" (A.N.C. Lib.
xii. 448). 12. There will be no falling back from the condition of
Godhood. (a) “... and they shall reign for ever and ever” (Rev.
xxii. 5). (6) "... his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall
not be destroyed ” (Daniel vii. 14). (c) “ And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or
maketh a lie....” (Rev. xxi. 27). (d) “For it is impossible that he who has once been made
perfect by love, and feasts eternally and insatiably on the boundless joy of contemplation, should delight in small and grovelling things. For what rational cause remains any more to the man who has gained the light inaccessible for reverting to the good things of the
world ” (A.N.C. Lib. xii. 346-347). Such, briefly, is the scheme of the Science of Salvation in the teaching of Christianity which has remained hidden from the generality of men thus far. In Hinduism also the same doctrine prevails. Mr. J. P. Brown thus sums up the Hindu creed (see The Dervishes, p. 48): “He who undertakes the pilgrimage of the Spirit which is in himself, penetrates all, without regard either to the state of the sky, the country, or time ... securing to himself a perpetual happiness, free from all impurity, frees himself completely from the works, becomes omniscient, penetrates all, and is immortal.” I may say that the same is the teaching of every other rational religion in the world, so that all have really taught the same thing, though owing to the employment of the allegorical style their teachings have appeared to be different and conflicting, the one with another.
As for the origin of the allegorical style, it appears to have been originally employed out of poetical fervour, and spread far and