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.
ancient or old, so far as their writing is concerned, it is, in very truth, older than the oldest writing extant, more ancient than the most ancient sage who opened his lips to discourse upon its eternity, or the earliest saviour who preached it to humanity-in fact, it is. Eternal. Unfortunately for man, his love of money and other worldly things has so hardened his heart that he has lost the power of benefiting himself by the teaching of the Saviours, and has drifted farther and farther away from truth with the advance of time.. He respected these Teachers for the miracles they wrought, but there ended his interest in them and their teachings. By considering these God-men supernatural beings he has reduced himself to a status of wretched helplessness, altogether forgetting that what one man can do all others can achieve also. The most elementary study of the Spiritual Laws suffices to show that the God-ren of the past were super-human only in the sense that they had developed the super-conscious powers of their souls, and, for that reason, were enabled to perform feats which, to the ordinary mediocre being, appear to be miraculous.
Almost all the miracles of the past saviours of mankind can be explained with the aid of the mental laws. already known. Here is one of them. A little before the breaking out of the great Mahabharata war, and at the time when the five Pandava brothers were living in seclusion, in the forest, with Draupadi, the wife of Arjuna, a certain Rishi, Durvâsâ by name, once visited their secluded habitation with an enormous crowd of chelas (disciples) and others, numbering close upon ten