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. seeking and piling up wealth, till he kills himself in its pursuit. The former, knowing the true worth of money, cares not to soil his happiness by coming in contact with it, and thus avoids all the worries and flurries and doubts and disappointments of the money-maker, courteously nick-named the city-magnate.
Now, mark the different results of the two pursuits. The city-magnate might possess heaps of gold in his safe ; he might have a large balance to his credit in one or more banks; he might be able to purchase, or otherwise procure, all the paraphernalia of luxury which constitute the pleasure of the worldly-minded ; but all this can be boast of at the cost of health, beauty and youth, to say nothing of true happiness, which, it would seem, is beyond his understanding.
While he has been busy in the pursuit of riches, dyspepsia, gout, and rheumatism have been busy in his pursuit; and by the time that he lays his hold on money, these lay their hold on him. So is the case with ugliness. No one, whether a city-magnate or not, can, with impunity, spend hours of mental torture, or toss, night after night, from side to side, in bed, in racking his brains for devising newer methods of amassing more gold, or of making good the losses already incurred. Mental anguish must leave its visible, ugly marks behind, in the shape of a wrinkled forehead, distorted features and wretched looks. Just think over it, was man born to be a wretched, miserable being, a living, burning libel on personal beauty and a victim to all sorts of ghastly and incurable diseases, or does he make himself so? The millionaire makes his pile, it is true ; but it