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.
but they did him no harm. Once five bears came face to face with him, but they walked away without molesting him in the least. On another occasion a wild wolf came near him; and again a tiger encountered him in the same jungle. The great swami himself explains the reason of his remaining unmolested by these wild beasts. “Why was it ? Simply on account of fearlessness. Rama was filled with that spirit: I am not the body, I am not the mind; the Supreme Divinity I am, I am God; no fire can burn me, no weapon wound me. They (the wild beasts) were looked straight in the eyes and they ran away."
We could cite many similar instances from ancient records, but it would serve no useful purpose to quote them here.
But for the corroboration these statements have received from modern psychical research, the sceptic would have raised his voice against them, and proclaimed them to be beyond the range of possibility. He is, however, compelled to hold his peace now that the great authorities on mental science have declared their belief, on scientific grounds, in such phenomenal occurrences. Says Mr. Hudson :
" Facts of record are not wanting to sustain the proposition that man in a subjective, or partially subjective condition, is safe from the attacks of wild beasts. One of the first recorded instances, and the one most familiar, is the story of Daniel. Daniel was a prophet,
a seer. At this day he would be known in some circles as a spiritual medium ; in other words, as a mind reader, a clairvoyant, etc.according to the conception of each individual as to the origin of his powers. In other words, he was a man possessed of great subjective powers. He was naturally and habitually in that state in which, in modern parlance, the threshold of his consciousness was displaced,