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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YOGA.
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The idea of absorption in God has also nothing to commend itself to common sense, for two simple and indestructible substances or realities can never become fused into one by any possibility; and since both the souls and God are indestructible by nature, it is clearly impossible for either of them to become merged in the other. The analogy of the absorption of a drop in the sea, which Mysticism relies upon in support of its proposition, is beside the point, because analogy is no argument. It, however, actually refutes that which it is supposed to prove, since the sea, is not a unit, but only a collection of drops, so that the additional drop only goes to increase the number of those already there.
Apart from this, it is permissible to ask : what may be the effect of the chemical operation of absorption ? Would the soul survive the event, or be wiped out in the process ? No mystic has yet succeeded in giving a satisfactory reply to these all important questions, but we can see for ourselves that in the former case the idea of absorption is more imaginary than real, and in the latter the dismal prospect of extinction suffices to rob the operation of the very last vestige of attractiveness.
Those who have realized the weakness of their mystic creed on the point have tried to evade the difficulty by arguing that love is its own reward or end. But this, too, does not advance their case any further, and is clearly an endeavour to throw dust in the eyes of reason, because the end is not love but happiness. Now, since it so chances that happiness and love are not