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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remove the erroneous impression of the child ? Would you not lift him up in your arms, and take him to the fancied serpent, and let him satisfy himself in every manner that his belief was a mistaken one ? Suppose, again, that a man is hypnotized to believe that he is haunted by a devil, and is consequently in a terrible plight. What would you do for him ? Would you not' wake' him up and let him see that the devil, which was haunting him, was the merest illusion ?
The human race are similarly hypnotized into the belief that they are wretched ignorant beings, evil by nature and birth, and doomed to suffer all sorts of rebuffs and disappointments at the hands of desting and the forces of Nature. What is your duty here? Would you not treat them as you have treated the two previous cases? Just wake them up, so that they may see for themselves that the whole thing is a delusion. Like the child in the illustration, man believes that there is, in the chamber of his heart, the black serpent of Evil, and is unbappy thereby. There is only one way of removing the wrong impression from his mind, and that is to convince him that there is no serpent, but God Himself in his heart. Your assuring him that his present belief is wrong, on the authority of any, or all, of the Buddhas, Christs, Mahomeds and others will be of no avail at all. You must remove all doubt from his mind, but that can be done only when he has been led to think and experiment for himself, to his utter satisfaction. Says Swami Rama Tirtha :
“If the sun should say to the mangoes of Bombay, as I revealed my warmth and light to the birch and cedar trees of the Himalayas,