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 secret. Work done impersonally is of the highest merit. The moment we stake our happiness on the result of the work in hand, mind loses its tranquillity, and intellect its foresight. This is an old principle, and is well brought out in one of Lytton's interesting novels, entitled, Zanoni. So long as Zanoni looked on the World as a mere spectator, he could read the destinies of the race, and shape the events to his liking; but the moment he fell in love with the fair but frail and doubting Viola, he came down to her level, lost his command over the Powers and Elements, and was unable to keep the hideous monster, the Dweller on the Threshold, from obtruding itself on his thoughts.
In practice, the principle of non-attachment to the fruit of action must signify the curbing of passions and desires, if it is not to become a licensefor free indulgence of senses, in the name of duty and dharma. For, individual motives being the main-spring of all human activity, it is idle to talk of non-attachment to the fruit of action where evil action itself is. not altogether abandoned. As a matter of fact, no man ever performs what he is not interested in doing in some sort of way, so that the continuance of evil actions must he ultimately traceable to individual interest. and desires. Besides this, it is also incumbent on the soul, at a certain stage of its spiritual progress, to rise above the sense of worldly duty, to attain to the highest good. The aspirant cannot then afford to return to the world even to bury a dead parent (Cf. Matt. viii. 22), notwithstanding that the sense of worldly duty unmistakeably points that way. It is, thus, the curbing of
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.