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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cribe it to an outside God. There is no without, so to speak, to a self-sufficient soul, from where any help could come. You are the master of your own destiny, however much you may be ignorant of your powers. Even the final liberation will come through your own exertion, though you might be now hoping to attain it through the grace of another. As Vivekananda says, you are like a prisoner lying inside a prison, barred and chained from within, waiting for the arrival of the Liberator. You have called him, begged him, prayed to him to come, and are anxiously awaiting his arrival. With faith you are sitting down, full of eager expectation and belief. When the time for redemption comes, you hear a rap on the door. You get up, open the door and peep out. There is no one without. You come back to your seat; the rap is repeated. You again go to the door. Again there is nobody without, but your faith is still working from within. The prison door is now open, but there is no redeemer without, for you have opened it yourself. Thus, all search after the gods and goddesses brings us back to the point whence we had started, that is, to our own self, and man finds that 'the God for whom he was searching in every little brook, in every temple, in little churches, in worse heavens, that God whom he was even imagining as sitting in heaven and ruling the World, is his own Self.' I am He, and He is Me. Verily, "I am in the Father, and ye in me and I in ye" (John, XIV. 20). None but "I am" is the God, and this little, bodily 'I' is only the cause of confusion.