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.
minds that enables them to act in perfect synchronism when occasion requires, is necessarily true.' It is to this synchronism that we are indebted for what is designated as 'genius.' It is also in evidence on occasions of great importance to the individual, as when danger is imminent, or some great crisis is impending."
According to the most authoritative views, the subjective mind is an intelligent enti'y which is invested with full control over the vital fu' tions of the body,-- which accounts for the mysterious and wonderful phenomena of hypnotism and the like.
Hypnotism itself may be defined as the induction of a peculiar psychical condition which releases the subjective mind, for the time being, from the dominion of the lower, or the objective mind. The conscious 'mind is, in a sense, the guard or sentinel on the sub-conscious, with reason as a check imposed on the brain automatism. It thus becomes clear that we must overpower and vanquislı the sentinel of reason, if we wish to release the subjective mind from its dominion. Dr. Ram Narain maintains (see the Medical Hypnotism) :
"Suppress consciousness, suppress the voluntary brain activities, and you have a case of somnambulism which, according to Despine, is characterized physiologically by the exercise of the automatic activity alone of the brain, and the paralysis of the conscious activity of the brain which manifests the ego."
It is in this condition that the formation of blisters full of serum results from the application of postage stamps or plain paper to the body of the patient,' regarding whom the Medical Hypnotism records :
“At your suggestion he smells the strongest ammonia as camphor and eats quinine with the same relish as sugar, and what is most strange is the fact that he gets no harm at all.
When the objective mind has retired from the scene,