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.
intensity of joy which our 'school-boy' would feel, when he acquires not only all the learning that there is to be taught in our worldly schools, but exhausting all the categories of the discriminative intellect masters that very faculty itself? Who can gauge the depth of the feeling, or rather the emotion, of freedom which such an one, who has mastered all knowledge and annihilated all doubts, will feel in his emancipated state? Its estimation or measurement* is surely beyond intellect, for it is emotional, and intellect does not pretend to deal with emotions. It can only be described feebly by language which avowedly follows the intellect, and clothes its concepts in words. Hence, the utmost that can be said in describing bliss is that it is a beatific state of being in which joy wells up in the soul, as wave upon wave of pure ecstasy, in unceasing succession,
* Feelings naturally cannot differ from one another quantitatively, since they are psychic in their nature and cannot be measured like magnitudes. But they differ in point of intensity, that is, qualitatively, as different colours, or the shades of a particular tint, The intensity of a particular feeling depends on the greater or less exclusion of all other sensations, ideas and emotions from the mind, for the time being, and on the persistence with which mind might dwell on the details of the idea related to it. The affections and contractions of muscles which are the outward manifestations of the inner states, no doubt, vary with different feelings and sensations, and by the greater or less extent of the area involved give rise to the notion of magnitude, enabling us, in a way, to form a quantitative estimate of the quality of the inner psychical states; but this is the work of pure intellect which interprets all phenomena, in terms of magnitude in the use of which alone it is an expert. The best way to be convinced of this is to try to find out, by how much does anger weigh more than love, or by how much is virtue longer than vice, and so forth, without calling in aid their effects on the physical body.