The World’s Religions

131:6.1The third group of re­li­gious be­liev­ers who pre­served the doc­trine of one God in In­dia—the sur­vival of the Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ing—were known in those days as the Sud­u­anists. Lat­terly these be­liev­ers have be­come known as fol­low­ers of Jain­ism. They taught:

131:6.2“The Lord of Heaven is su­preme. Those who com­mit sin will not as­cend on high, but those who walk in the paths of righ­teous­ness shall find a place in heaven. We are as­sured of the life here­after if we know truth. The soul of man may as­cend to the high­est heaven, there to de­velop its true spir­i­tual na­ture, to at­tain per­fec­tion. The es­tate of heaven de­liv­ers man from the bond­age of sin and in­tro­duces him to the fi­nal beat­i­tudes; the righ­teous man has al­ready ex­pe­ri­enced an end of sin and all its as­so­ci­ated mis­eries. Self is man’s in­vin­ci­ble foe, and self is man­i­fested as man’s four great­est pas­sions: anger, pride, de­ceit, and greed. Man’s great­est vic­tory is the con­quest of him­self. When man looks to God for for­give­ness, and when he makes bold to en­joy such lib­erty, he is thereby de­liv­ered from fear. Man should jour­ney through life treat­ing his fel­low crea­tures as he would like to be treated.”