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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under the combined influence of knowledge and love, the binding force of karmas is destroyed and the soul is set free to enjoy its natural omniscience and bliss.
As regards the statement that purity of the heart enables one to have God-vision, the truth is that the effect of an intense craving for the realization of the Ideal is to make the mind one-pointed by preventing its restiveness and wandering after the sense-objects in the world. This leads to purity of consciousness which then reflects its own natural effulgence-the glory of God. Just as in a storm one cannot see the objects lying at the bottom of a pond, owing to the disturbed and muddy state of its water, so is not the vision of the inner Divinity possible so long as the individual consciousness remains muddy and disturbed by the uncontrolled, tempestuous fury and mad impetuosity of a desire-ridden will. And, just as the objects at the bottom of the pond can be clearly perceived when the storm abates, so is the vision of the Self obtainable with ease when the surface of the lake of human consciousness is rendered calm and smooth by the subsidence of the activity of the desiring manas (lower mind). When the heart is rid of the taint of attachment to the things of the world, it reflects the natural effulgence of the soul and enables it to see itself. Hence, the statement that the pure in heart shall see God.
This finishes our survey of the path of Bhakti.
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YOGA.
As regards the remaining departments of Yoga, the analysis of the methods of Jnana and Bhakti practically disposes of them also; for they also aim at concentration, although the Raja-yogi tries to attain it by the