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.
exception to this rule, and the constant craving of the soul for happiness testifies to the fact that it is capable of realizing and enjoying bliss for itself. Man's search for happiness, thus, is a search for a hidden article, not for anything new. For, however much we may deceive ourselves with false ideas and conceptions, however much we may drown our real, natural instincts in the intoxication of the transient pleasures of the world, there is no man who does not feel the poignant craving for unalloyed bliss, whenever he gets a moment to himself, for sober thinking. Whence did he get this idea of pure bliss, if not from the innermost recesses of his real blissful Self, lying hidden beneath the impurities of sin ? It is this inner or real Man who is said to be in heaven, that is, in a state of blessedness and bliss. Even if we apply the expression the 'Son of man' exclusively to Jesus, in this instance, we must come to the same conclusion, for it does not refer to the bodily Jesus, who, we know, stood in the Holy Land, and not in heaven, at the time when he uttered this great truth. Therefore, the conclusion we arrive at, even from this point of view, is the same, namely, that, while the bodily or physical Jesus was, at the time, in this world, the real Jesus was all the time enjoying the natural blessedness of the soul, that is to say, was in heaven in metaphorical speech. The very word redemption signifies this much. It is the discharging of an encumbrance from a thing which belongs to us, not the purchasing of a new article. According to the Bible, man was given the freedom of choice between the knowledge of the Self and that of good and evil of things, but, unfor