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.
bringing discredit on those who raise their voice against
it.
Resurrection, then, is meant only for those who realise the nature of the delusion involved in the idea of death, and who apply themselves to conquer samsara (the transmigratory condition) and their lower nature. This is why Jesus repeatedly exhorted his followers to acquire the perfection of God. He could not have said : 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,' unless his mind had fully grasped the possibility of attaining to the perfection of God.
The idea of the 'conquest of samsāra,' it must be remembered, has nothing in common with that of bringing mankind under subjugation, or of lording it over one's fellow-beings. The true conqueror is he who conquers his lower nature, not he who allows himself to be overpowered by sensuality, lust, covetousness, and the like. Hence, those who engage in warfare with their fellowmen, in vindication of real or imaginary rights and grievances, cannot be regarded as conquerors in the true sense of the word. Religion puts no value on a conquest which does not procure freedom from one's natural enemies, i.e., passions, desires, and the like, and warns us against all those pursuits and ideals which only go to increase the burden of captivity. ..When the soul becomes God and breaks away from the world to enter Nirvana, it feels the force of the saying: “There is one alone, * there is not a second;
*The idea is that every soul is perfect in its own self, and, therefore, its own God, there being no external Saviour or God to confer perfection on it.