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.
exactly in the proportion in which the one is forced down does the other acquire ascendency. This is the doctrine of the Cross — crucify the ego of desires and you become divine ; suppress the real Self and you immediately fall to the level of brutes, and become an heir to the full heritage of wretchedness and misery pertaining to an animal existence.
It is the sense of the body being the man which is the cause of our downfall. A story is told in the Yoga Vasishtha of a war between devas and the powers of darkness. The leader of the latter forces one day created, by his power of maya, three asuras without ahankara, and sent them to fight the devas. The latter fought hard against them, but in vain. Their egoless opponents had no fear of destruction on account of the absence of ahankara, and proved invincible. The devas thereupon sought the advice of Brahma who told them that their enemies could not be killed unless they developed ahankara within them. When asked as to how they were to proceed to create ahankara in their enemies, he suggested that they should constantly draw the asuras into the battle-field and then retire before them. The reason assigned for this queer method of warfare was that by their constantly pretending to fight and running away the vâsand of ahankara will begin to reflect itself in the minds of the dreaded asuras, as a shadow in glass, and they would be caught, like rats, in the trap of egoism. The devas carried out the advice of Brahma to the letter; and a long period of time elapsed during which this queer warfare was carried on to the great chagrin and irritation of the asuras. Gradually, the