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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have renounced the world for God-realization, is about the best means of turning the mind Godward. The same result can be achieved, though with greater labour, by a constant perusal of books which deal with subjects pertaining to God-realization.
YOGA.
Another thing to bear in mind is that the subject of concentration is neither the name, nor the form, nor the size of a thing, but its significance, or purport. Mind cannot, for long, be concentrated on a subject the paucity of whose detail renders it unworthy of contemplation. A chess-player, for example, would soon get tired of looking merely at the chess-board and 'men,' but would go on playing the game, unmindful of time and most other things, without finding his interest flagging. In this lies one of the chief objections to idolatry. If the subject for concentration be only the name and form of the devotee's idol, obviously there is nothing of much value to be obtained by such devotion; for mind having speedily mastered the few physical details thus presented to it for concentration of thought, gradually loses all interest in the idol and wanders away from it. Few, however, are degenerate enough to worship the blocks of stone in temples or pagodas. What is actually worshipped in most cases is the Paramatman-whether the devotee has a true conception of the Godhead or not, is a different matterwhose symbol the image in stone becomes on consecration. It follows from this that the subject which presents the greatest variety of detail is the one on which mind can be concentrated without ennui. Hence, the Infinite*
*The Self is called the Infinite, not because He is infinite in extent, like space, but because He is possessed of infinite knowledge and endowed with an infinity of divine attributes.
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