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.
For him the evil consequences arising out of such a diet furnish a sufficient argument against its use. If one only knew what evils arise out of it, one would shun it as poison. Is not its disgusting, nauseating sight, in its uncooked state, a sufficient reason for its discontinuance? The Bhagavad Gita declares :
“ The foods that augment vitality, vigour, health, joy and cheerfulness, delicious, bland, substantial and agreeable are dear to the pure. The passionate desire foods that are bitter, sour, saline, overhot, pungent, dry and burning, and which produce pain, grief and sickness. That which is stale and flat, putrid and corrupt, leavings also and unclean, is the food dear to the dark."
To revert to the point of morality of laws, it is certain that Nature respects not our ideas of virtue and vice. With her it is all a question of causes and effects--as you sow, so shall you reap. Neither is she a respecter of persons. According to the Bible, Adam, the Son of God (Luke, III. 38), violated one of the laws, and was promptly turned out of the Garden of Eden, while Jesus, a man (John, VIII. 40), by living in harmony with the Law, became Christ. If you are unhappy, who cares for it in the Universe ? There are bundreds and thousands of others who are more unhappy than you. It is your own look-out whether you would be happy or miserable. There is no punishment or reward outside the range of the laws of nature; and every moment is the Judgment* Day with these unfeeling laws. When we violate the law we come to grief, but when we live in harmony with it we thrive. The
* Of. “The Just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his Judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame."-(Zeph. I. 5).