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.
his life a ransom for the sins of the many.' These and many other similar sayings of the Saviour all point in one direction alone, namely, that it is necessary for mankind to practise renunciation to get an admission into the kingdom of Heaven. His condemnation of the traditions of men, such as salutation in markets, sitting in high places, wearing long robes, uttering long and elaborate prayers, swearing, noiseful charity, 'washing the exterior,' and other like acts is based on the same principle.
We must now endeavour to go more deeply into the root of ethics and morals to understand the full significance of the teaching of the Saviour and to make out the true sense of such sayings of his, as 'love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good #0 them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.'
All the energy in the universe of matter and form comes from the forces of attraction and repulsion, which appear as Love and Hatred in relation with the soul, and are governed by desire. Desire to possess a thing is love for or attraction towards it; desire to avoid it is hatred or repulsion of it. Love, being constructive and preservative, brings a sense of expansion, i.e., of 'moreness,' which means pleasure for the being; hatred, on the other hand, causes shrinkage or contraction, that is, a sense of 'less-ness,' and, consequently, also of pain; hatred ultimately destroys the organism. All our desires assume the one or the other of these two forms. Leaving the complex forms of emotions out of consideration, as foreign to our purpose for the moment, we can easily