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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in this world, if it is to be had at all ; its postponement to an indefinite and vague future, the very notion of which involves more than one contradiction in its definition, is merely begging the question. There is nothing in the passage in question to suggest that the cut-off limb shall ever be restored to its body, which would render even heaven a place where one might come across, not only that which is good, and pleasing, and beautiful, but, also, that which is ugly and maimed and halt.
So far as the sense of enjoyment is concerned, a geographical heaven can but afford less pain and greater and more refined pleasure than our earth ; but, in reality, it is only in the Gem of the Sat-ChitAnanda, i.e., the soul itself, that true happiness has its centre. If the physical propensities, allegorically, the bodily limbs, offer opposition to its manifestation, they must be removed. Where Sat-Chit-Ananda shines, there is bliss and entering into life,' that is, 'heaven;' where He is not shining, there is darkness and suffering, that is, 'hell.'
It must be further borne in mind that, unless happiness be the nature of man, it would be impossible for. him to enjoy it eternally, because it would otherwise be subject to change, like the pleasures of the material world. Jesus expressed this idea when he said :
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven" (John, III. 13).
One can have absolutely no idea of a mental emotion, and certainly no hankering after it, unless there be a possibility of its realization. The emotion of bliss is no