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. the gospel of the kingdom to the world,' is as much a commandment to-day as it was two thousand years ago. What a noble mission it now appears to be. “Go, tell the people that the God, they have been searching in vain everywhere, is not non-existent, nor far from but actually present within them ; tell them that his kingdom is within their sanctum, for where God is there must also be his kingdom. This is glad tidings, indeed ! Look not for an external heaven; for the heaven of heavens, the source of all bliss and blessedness, is within, nay is none other than the real Self of each and every one of us. If you want to dwell in heaven where you can enjoy undisturbed bliss, you must help in its evolution from within. All you have to do is to sow the tiny little seed of faith, and, then, like the man in the parable, you may go to sleep and rise up to find it in full bloom. It is, indeed, a gospel worthy of a Messiah.
Psychologically, the kingdom of heaven is a mental attitude, i.e., an emotion. If the mental emotion be a happy and blessed one, everything will adjust itself to contribute its share of bliss to the man who puts himself in that attitude. The true nature of the soul is blissful, though it is lying buried beneath a large heap of filth and rubbish of passions and desires, so that one has not to go out anywhere in search of happiness, but has merely to remove the mass of impurity from the precious Gem already lying within, to perceive its glory.
Belief in one's own divine nature will counteract the poison of the suggestion of infeiority and evil, and gradually establish a reign of desirelessness and dispassion which will bring peace and tranquillity of mind.