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.
death is not an unavoidable calamity, and that it is possible to prolong life as long as one likes to do so. Swami Vivekananda urges (Raja Yoga, page 158-160):--
"The Yogis even hold that men who are able to acquire a tremendous power of good Samskâras do not have to die, but even in this life can change their bodies into God-bodies. There are several cases mentioned by the Yogis in their books. These men change the very material of their bodies; they re-arrange the molecules in such fashion that they have no more sickness, and what we call death does not come to them. Why should not this be ?............AII the bodies in the Universe are made of tanmatras, and it is only in the arrangement of them that there comes a difference. If you are the arranger you can arrange that body in one way or another. Who makes up this body but you? Who eats the food ? If another ate the food for you, you would not live long. Who makes the blood out of it? You certainly...... You are the manufacturer of the body, and you live in it. Only we have lost the knowledge of how to make it......... We are the creators and we have to regulate that creation, and as soon as we can do that we shall be able to manufacture just as we like, and then we shall have neither birth nor death, disease or anything."
To what extent this view is correct will be enquired into later ; but it is clear that it was not any claim to personal worship, or adoration, on the part of Jesus which was the point in issue between him and his opponents, but the power of the soul to attain to immortality. Hence, he did not claim any special and exclusive privilege for himself when he said
“I am the light of the world, he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness, but shall bave the light of life."
The Pharisees, who misunderstood him as usual, told him that he lied, for he bore testimony to his own record. But Jesus replied that, although he bore testimony to his own record it was true, because his assertion was in agreement with truth, but their denial was based on