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 KINGDOM OF GOD.
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Truthfulness and Justice will also be found sufficient to establish peace and harmony wherever the interests, of individuals and nations may clash, for they beget love, which, in the case of the body in power, takes the form of sympathy, and of loyalty in that of the other. · Every ruling nation must rely on the loyalty of the subject race, if it wishes its own rule to be perpetuated. But what does loyalty mean? Does it mean a gramophone-like reproduction of what has been put into the terrified mouth by some overbearing agency, or does it mean a spontaneous gush and bubbling up of that indefinable feeling, or emotion, of confidence in which love and respect are blended together in a heart which delights in giving expression to its natural feeling, of its own accord ? It is always possible to bully any one into an expression of a forced sentiment of loyalty, but the statesman who relies upon this kind of loyalty in his calculations would very soon find himself getting into deeper water. True statesmanship aims not at removing or suppressing the symptoms of 'dis-ease' or friction temporarily, but at stamping out their causes. We have said that loyalty is an emotion, so the question now arises, how to engender it in the human heart? A study of the laws which govern human emotions reveals the fact that they spring from mental conviction, and since conviction, in its turn, depends on the opinion one forms on mature deliberation, they may be said to depend on the opinion one is led to entertain concerning an individual or a state. Now, the emotion of loyalty, like that of friendship, belongs