,
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Can we say that any
of these teachers who teach in different standards is better than the others?
Can we dislike the teacher of the second standard merely because we happened
to love our teacher in the first standard ? Can we say that what
we were taught in the first
standard was
better than the lessons in the second
standard ? Of course not! These
different standards
belong to the same school. They follow the same method of teaching,
but our ages and capacities
are different in each standard. When we were
six years
old, our capacities
were very little, so the wise founder of
the school advised the
teacherof our
standard to give us much of the
knowledge as we could then
understand. What we
were taught in that standard were the
best lessons
we could receive at
that particular age. If we were then given the
lessons of the third
standard to begin with, we could
never make
any progress. The
same is true with religion.
.
God
is one and His institution of religion is one . It is we who have different
capacities in different ages.
.
Our divine Teachers,
the
Manifestations of God, are wise teachers. All of
them have one
purpose which is to
help us progress in the Kingdom of God. But Man has been developing down
the ages and his capacities have changed with his growth. We must therefore
see
wisdom of this evolutionary
law of progress which God has provided for us through His Manifestations
in different ages. We must not allow ourselves to remain in one standard
of this divine Institution
merely because we love the Teacher who has taught
us in that
standard. This
is not true love which we have for our Teacher because if we
remain in His class, He will be sad. He wants us to go further and
receive instruction from the teachers of
the next
standard too. This does not mean that the
knowledge of one teacher is less than
that of another.
No . All these Teachers have the same degree of knowledge.
All of them are equally wise and important. Because They are
wise, They give us only as much knowledge
as we require
at a certain time. But They assure us that when we have done our best and
followed their instruction, we will have another Teacher who
will help us along further progress. Our next Teacher inturn praises
the effort and ability of the previous
Teacher who gave us
knowledge. In the like manner we see that all the
Prophets
of God have praised the Manifestations who came
before them, and have
promised further education
through a Teacher who
is to come
after them.
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