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.
(2) The people are like a tree from which, if thou nourishest it, thou canst enjoy fruit to thine own and thy friends' satisfaction.]
These are the true principles of sound government, and wherever they have been put into practice they have never failed to afford happiness and joy to all those concerned. It is well to bear in mind that the aim of existence is not to fill our own pockets to the detriment of all others of our race, nor to lord it over mankind, but to so live in the world as to allow ourselves and all others to attain to the fullest measure of peace, harmony and happiness which are available here and hereafter, and to evolve out into perfect Gods which is our ultimate destiny. It is also well to remember that each step we take in the wrong direction, unless retraced in time, takes us 'nearer the yawning abyss of destruction, and that after a certain number of wrong steps have been taken it will be out of our power to retrace them at all. . Even to-day our politicians are trying to govern the world with the rule of hatred, and are leading its nations into sure destruction. They aim at world power' for the glorification of their own nation, forgetting that man cannot run counter to the laws of nature with impunity. The past history of great nations is there to convince all, who might be open to conviction, of the fact that stability and permanency of kingdoms is possible only when they are founded on the solid and sure basis of Love, and that in the matter of world-conquest or government, no amount of diplomatic skill, heavy armament, or ships and soldiers can possibly avert the doom which follows a disregard of the spiritual Law of Love.