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Glimpses of World Religions
opposition to him. On seeing the guts of Jesus, people were consoled to believe that the great superman is born in the physical form of Jesus Christ. At that time the two castes were the Jews and the Semarians. Jesus was a Jew, but he didn't believe in the distinction between man and man; or caste and caste. He liked very much to render service, irrespective of untouchability. He had worked a lot for removing the caste-distinctions between man and man.
Not more details are available to know about the period, beginning from 13 years' age of Jesus upto his age of 32 years. He had put in hard work or Purusharth to imbibe knowledge, in his search for knowledge. In addition to that, cruelties inflicted on the people as well as injustice and exploitation awakened him. He felt that to come to the front, developing courage, is inevitable. It was the period of self-introspection, familiarity with the masses, journeys and mental agonies (deep thinking).
Jesus did hard austerities of penance for 40 days. He challanged against the government aided religious customs or beliefs. The bells of revolution got tinkling. The large number of people who very much valued the gains of trash, trivial physical pleasures and the political authorities put forth the strongest opposition to Jesus. He began first of all, to explain in quite simple easy style, the difficult problems of religion with the help of common principles (or examples). It had been mentioned in the Gospel that Jesus cured many sick persons, gave vision to the blind and enabled the deaf to hear. He used to say, “I am the way of truth and the light. I have come hear only for the sinners and the ill...”
Making a deadly attack on the religious preachers, he said, “O' you hypocrites! You observe the Moral Rules; but you put aside the matters more superior than the scripture viz. Justice, Mercy and the Trust !
