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.
that he felt his nudity for the first time after the eating of the forbidden fruit. It was not the tree of sight, but the transgressors felt as if their eyes had been opened, and observed their nudity for the first time in their lives. Yet another result which ensued from the act of transgression was fear. Adam used to walk in the company of the Lord God, fearlessly and like a friend, but felt afraid to appear before him for the first time after the act of disobedience. The most fatal consequence of all, however, was the loss of immortality. Man was not forbidden to eat of the Tree of Life till the commission of sin, but after that he was simply denied admission to the Garden where that Tree stood. . Now, ordinarily, it is impossible to connect the transgression with the results that are said to have ensued from it. How strange that you eat knowledge and become ignorant, and lose your immortality also into the bargain! The true interpretation of the narrative must, therefore, be different from its apparent sense. When we dive beneath the surface of words the whole thing becomes clear and intelligible at once. This is what is actually meant by the story: Adam was happy and immortal so long as he believed himself to be one with God, the state of at-one-ment with the Lord leaving no room in his heart to feel his imaginary nudity. The overflowing joy, consequent on a feeling of being at one with his true Self, had preserved him in a state of godly innocence, and prevented all notions of phenomenal duality and differentiation from obscuring his clear vision. Notions of nudity and inferiority had not sullied the purity of his heart till then. Then, the ser