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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YOGA.
397. of one's own pure Atman, and in the earlier stages of discipleship, the conquest of the lower nature, i.e.; passions and lusts. According to mysticism :
“The condition of Arhatship is unceasing activity without any personal return; the Arhat must give light to all, but take from none. In the upward climbing, one desire after another must be unloosed, desire for personal enjoyment, personal pleasure, personal gain, personal loves, personal attainments, and last and subtlest of all, desire for personal perfection, for the personal self must be lost in the One Self, that is, the Self of all that lives."
It is only a labourer who works for gain to satisfy his vulgar cravings. The Master never labours for worldly gain; his enjoyment of his true Self is sufficient work for him. The object of work is the renunciation of desires, since they keep us entangled in delusion. In the story of Adam and Eve, it was the desire for the knowledge of good and evil which was the immediate cause of the Fall. Desire is a confession of being wanting in fulness, and by force of the law, as you think, so you become,” materializes the condition of deficiency in the perceptible, phenomenal World. The Whole cannot have a desire in him. Our present, wretched condition is the result of our wrong beliefs and confession of weakness, and will vanish the moment we realize our own Godhood or Sat-Chit-Anandaship. The natural perfection of the soul remains hidden only so long as we do not renounce attachment to the fruit of action. When you come round to take the right view, you will look upon worldly attachments as love of the fair but false objects in dreams. Remember, the love of the unreal is bound to be productive of suffering and sorrow. Knowing this, should you fall in love with them? This is