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.
A glance at the left hand side of the table suffices to demonstrate that the two chief characteristics of prayer are:
1. one's dependence upon another than one's own self, and
2. the denial of soul's divinity.
That there is nothing commendable, but everything objectionable, in these elements will, we think, be quite plain to anyone familiar with the nature of the soul and the effect of evil suggestion on its career.
The samayika, on the other hand, is the very process which is directly connected with the end in view in a causal way, and is, for that reason, the true method of meditation.
But there is every reason to suppose and none to oppose the fact that the modern conception of prayer does not coincide with that of the ancients, but has arisen, like all other errors of deistic theology, from a misinterpretation of its Scriptures, except where they are of too recent a date to be free from modern imperfections. For it is impossible to believe that those very beings whose mythology shows them to have been fully aware of the divinity of the soul could have been so inconsistent with themselves as to immediately preach that it was not.
As to the efficacy of prayer in those cases where the desired good is done by the soul itself, its why can be easily understood if we recall to mind the fact that the Subjective Mind is amenable to the law of suggestion, so that any suggestion which may find its way to the adytum of the inner divinity would be at once carried