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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inherent, natural bliss. Why samadhi is the realization of the ideal of the soul, is because in that state all taint of attachment for the outside world, together with its concomitants, pleasure and pain, is transcended, intellect is left behind, and the soul is set free to feel its own glory and bliss. When this stage is reached, the soul no longer argues and disputes ; it simply knows. It then enjoys the bliss and blessedness of perfection. What this state means, cannot be put in words ; for it is one of feeling, and neither language, nor intellect is capable of accurately depicting, or describing feelings. However, the following description from the pen of the present President of the Theosophical Society would be found lucid enough to convey a fairly good idea of the sublime state of ecstasy :
* There are moments, supreme and rare moments, that come to the life of the pure and spiritual, when every sheath is still and harmonious, when the senses are tranquil, quiet and insensitive, when the mind is serene, calm and unchanging ; when fixed in meditation the whole being is steady and nothing that is without may avail to disturb; when love has permeated every fibre, when devotion has illuminated, so that the whole is translucent ; there is a silence, and in the silenco there is a sudden change; no words may tell it, no syllables may utter it, but the change is there. All limitations have fallen away. Every limit of every kind has vapished : as stars seen in boundless space, the self is in limitless life, and knows no limit and realizes no bound : light in wisdom, consciousness of perfect light that knows no shadow, and therefore knows not itself as light; when the thinker has become the knower; when all reason has vanished and wisdom taken its place; who shall say what it is save that it is bliss ? Who shall try to utter that which is uputterable in mortal speech, but it is true and it exists." *
Many instances of such ecstatic joy are to be found
* The Self and its Sheaths, p. 71.