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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bartering of property ; it has nothing in common with the spirit of bargaining. The true bhakta cheerfully sacrifices everything for the object of his love, and would willingly give up home, family, wealth, and all else that ho might own, to catch but a fleeting glimpse of his Love's resplendent, glorious' face. He has ears and eyes only for the object of his love, and takes no interest in the concerns of men. He avoids the company of those engrossed in the affairs of the world, and becomes a wanderer on the face of the earth in search of his Beloved, unmindful of the requirements of the body and of the inclemency of seasons. He disregards both the taunts of men and the importunities of his own lower nature. In a word, he becomes mad with love.
When his love reaches this supreme state of forgetfulness of the world, when his mind is purged of all desires for sensuous enjoyment, and when the consciousness of his own personality has become merged in the emotion of pure love for his true Self, then is the veil lifted up from the ravishing face of the 'Beloved' and he is allowed to drink deep at the very fountain of love and bliss itself. He then realizes the full force of the great saying, “What shall a man profit if he gain of the abundance of worldly goods, but lose his own soul ?" With the dropping of the scales from his eyes, his vision becomes clarified; he hears the mellifluent, melodious voice of love softly whisper in his ear the sweet and vivifying formula – that thou art-of divine wisdom ; he realizes the joyous import of the words, what thou beholdest beauteous creature is thy Self;' his heart leaps up with delight; and, with one bound, as it were, of the