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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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
Godhood, only means a state of consciousness in which there is not only a knowledge of perfection and fulness in one's own self, but an absence of all desires as well. Hence, if God sought pleasure in the homage of his creatures, he could not be happy in himself, since his happiness would then depend on the being and actions of others.
Moreover, it is a blot on omniscience to say that it could not foresee that happiness could not be had form the company of unhappy mortals. How could an all-wise, omniscient God expect ignorant, niserable wretches, as most of us undoubtedly are, to offer him the devotion of our bleeding hearts, particularly as we know, on the authority of Deism itself, that if. he had not created us there would have been no suffering and sorrow for us? Again, if the creator be omnipotent, as he is supposed to be, why should it please him to create a world where sorrow and pain are the inevitable lot of his creatures ? Why should he not make happier beings to keep him company, if company be what he desires ? These are some of the objections to the replies given by the various systems of theology, and their force is only too evident to be ignored.
The Bhagavad Gita, fully alive to the fact that desire implies a longing for making up some deficiency or filling up a gap in one's mind, and, therefore, unable to attribute even the desire for creation to its Godhead, endeavours to steer clear of the difficulty by making the creative activity a function of the Essence of God.
It makes the Lord say :- "All beings, o Kaunteya, enter My Lower Nature at the end of