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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stance, non-killing is enjoined in respect of mankind alone ; while in others, as in Jainism, it is said that mercy shall not be for man alone, but shalỊ go beyond, and embrace the whole world. The question naturally arises that, although all the rational religions, which have swayed in the past and are now swaying the destinies of hundreds of millions of human beings in the World, are agreed as to the things to be performed and the deeds to be avoided, why is it that their behests are trampled under foot and disobeyed ? How is it that the Hindus now do not entertain the same respect for animal life as they did in the past? Why is it that the Christians no longer live the life delineated in the Sermon on the Mount, or the Mohammedans abide by the doctrine of complete resignation to the will of God ? By morality the Yogi does not mean the modern lip-morality of the world, which regards the Messianic injunction,_"whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek turn to him the other also," ---as meant only for the high-flown style of pulpit oratory, and as quite inapplicable to the affairs of practical life, but a real, live code of Ethics which does not brook violation of its least commandment, and which, consequently, must be respected and obeyed. The difference lies in the fact that, while the Yogi aims at perfecting himself, by bringing into manifestation the good, the true, and the beautiful in his own soul, the ambition of the man of the world does not soar higher than dominion over the world and bags of gold and silver. The latter, not knowing the uses of what the former regards as a useless commodity, and not knowing where and when to stop, goes on