Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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CREATION.
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Christian and Muslim theologians are prepared to go the length of holding matter to have been created from nothing, they do not regard it as any the less material for that reason. But if matter was created from nothing, it must be endowed with a reality born of nothingness ; and since mind or spirit is uncreate, the reality of a matter which is the progeny of nought can only be described as imaginary in comparison with that of spirit. Thus, the immediate and logical result of their belief about the origin of matter, would be the acceptance of the doctrine of Vedanta, which also describes the world as an illusion, i.e., a reality born of nothingness.
As a result of the foregoing discussion, we may say that neither Idealism nor any other system of philosophy can ever hope to succeed in solving the world mystery, without first recognizing the existence of two fundamentally different kinds of substances, the conscious and the unconscious. The difficulty which stares the materialist in the face, however, is even greater than that which the Idealist has to overcome, since materialism cannot possibly aim higher than the attainment of peaceful repose in the grave, together with the extinction of all those high- and noble aspirations and hopes of the soul which alone go to make life worth living.
If materialists would but push their enquiries to their legitimate end, they would not fail to see that matter, which is their only stock-in-trade, is . utterly incapable of discharging the functions of will, and force is equally helpless in carrying on the process of deliberation. We might, with advantage, refer to the following