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.
knowledge which is a synonym for it. Now, because knowledge is capable of infinite expansion and amplitude, and contains the germ of infinity in itself, consciousness cannot but be infinite by nature. Hence, the purest form of consciousness must be endowed with perfect omniscience, that is to say, with knowledge unlimited by Time or Space.
It is not to be supposed that the denial of the spatial type of infinity to divinity in any way detracts from the holiness or perfection of the most High ; on the contrary, the expression would be deprived of its true meaning if applied to one who is diffused all over. Holiness and perfection, it will be seen, have no dependence on boundlessness of size-else those of a gigantic stature would all be perfect and holy--but on freedom from impurities of karmas, that is, sin. The reason for the attribution of omni-presence to God is to be found in the tendency of the human mind which delights in the employment of exaggerating metaphor. Because God's omniscience enables him to know all things of all times and of all places, he is, as if it were, present everywhere. A metaphor like this has only to become sufficiently known to be rid of the irksome demand on understanding, latent in the accompanying qualifying phrase, when the 'un-initiated' are sure to interpret it in a strictly literal sense.
We must now endeavour to ascertain whether omniscience and bliss be actually the attributes of divinity, as they are said to be, or not. As to this only a little reflection is necessary to perceive that they both appertain to the nature of the individual soul, and, therefore,