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.
centration of mind on your being the Sat-Chit-Ananda, you will realize that what you have considered happiness hitherto is a condition foreign to the very idea of bliss. The modern man looks upon the Yogi as an idle fanatic of chimerical ideals, but that is because he has no true notion of what happiness implies. Just think over what it means. What is happiness? Whether accumulating wealth, surrounding one's self with all sorts of furniture and nick-nacks, eating dinners, holding interviews, forming courts and becoming courtiers, fighting law suits, engaging in warfare and shedding the blood of one another, giving oneself airs of importance, belittling others, losing one's self-composure in the vindication of real or supposed grievances, always putting off self-realization till money is made, constantly seeking but never finding happiness in sensual excitement, and, finally, in sheer desperation, drowning the senses in temporary, artificial stimulation, and seeking consolation in each other's impotent sympathy --whether all or any of these constitute happiness, or do breaking through the fetters of conventionality, rising above the feeling of impotent helplessness, securing freedom from mundane anxieties and worldly cares, being at peace with each and every and all creatures and fellow-beings under the sun, radiating good-will and Love all round, unrestrained, free, enjoying nature's highest gift, that is, Life, here and now, being master of death, disease and destiny ? Need we repeat which of these two sets of circumstances is to be considered happy ?
Taking an Indian ascetic as an embodiment of idleness, an advocate of modern civilization once de