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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what is our warrant for ascribing any other to the agency of a God?
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
The origin of the idea of prayer, it may be pointed out here, is to be found in the daily meditation of the Jainas, known as the sâmâyîka vow, which is directly calculated to enable the soul to attain to its high ideal in the shortest possible time. The sâmâyîka consists in an endeavour to refrain from the commission of all kinds. of sin for a certain period of time-usually for an antaramuhurta (about 48 minutes-every day. During this. period one should remain cheerful and engaged in subduing the element of mental disturbance arising from personal likes and dislikes, and should dissociate. oneself, in one's mind, from all kinds of interests and undertakings of which our worldly personality is made up. The most valuable gain from sâmâyika is the cultivation of an ever-growing feeling of equanimity, that well-balanced state of mental quietude and serenity which is the foremost attribute of divinity. The necessity for sâmâyika will be apparent to any one who will ponder over the nature of the wide gulf which separates the actual from the potential; for he who would become a God must first learn to behave as a God before he can be allowed a seat in the Assembly of Gods. Sâmâyîka aims at the attainment of divinity through perfection in conduct, which, consisting, as it does, in the purest and most complete form of renunciation, is the sole and the immediate cause of salvation, that is wholeness and freedom from the pain and misery of samsara (births and deaths).
The layman who has just entered the path observes