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.
is death ; and this is why one should receive the 'gospel" as a little child, the emblem of innocence and trust.
Thus, the only way of getting into the Kingdom of Heaven is the giving up or renunciation of desires, which will make the innermost condition of desirelessness (true bliss) shine forth as a light freed from the covering of a bushel. All the Tîrthamkaras and Saviours and sages are agreed as to this. This is what Lord Mahavira preached, this is what Moses taught, this is actually what Jesus repeated in the Holy Land, and this is what Science is soon to discover and proclaim to the World from house-tops. People do not realize the full force of their error on this point. When these subjects become better known, sinlessness will increase, for then mankind would learn that they have to shape their own destiny, as they think fit.
The ancient sages of the East while realizing that man was himself the Sat-Chit-Ananda-the condition he wanted to attain to—did not lose sight of the fact that, although the matter was theoretically simple, its practical attainment was hedged in by certain difficulties inherent in his very constitution, of which the restlessness of mind was the most troublesome and annoying. To overcome this difficulty they prescribed mental concentration. The idea is that in order to be effective force must be persistently applied to one particular point.
So long as one does not understand the dynamics of force, one can produce but little effect. Just as the rays of the Sun, when diffused and scattered about in space, will not produce the requisite amount of heat to ignite a piece of cotton, or charcoal, but when