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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RESURRECTION.
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sense of egoity stole in the minds of demons, and fear took hold of their hear
as no longer found them invulnerable, and speedily overpowered them.
The lesson to be learnt from the story is described in the Yoga Vasishtha, in the following words :
"In the three worlds there are three kinds of ahankaras. these, two kinds of ahankaras are always beneficial and one alt condemnable. That jnana which after discrimination ena us to cognize that all the worlds and Paramatman are oursel that the self or 'I' is eternal and that there is no other to meditated upon than our self is the Supreme Ahankara. Thatj which makes us perceive our own Self to be more subtle than tail-end of paddy and to be ever existent, exterior to (or at all the universe, is the second kind of Ahankara. These kinds of ahankaras will certainly be found in the Jivan-mt and will enable them to attain Moksha after crossing Samsara; will never subject them to bondage. That certain knowledge w identifies the 'I' with the body composed of the hands, feet, is the third kind of ahankara. This is common to all persons of the world and dire in its results. It is the cause of the growth of the poisonous tree of re-births. It should be destroyed at all costs. Dire, very dire are its effects. The sooner you annihilate this ahankara through the above-mentioned two kinds of ahankaras, the sooner will the Brahmic principle dawn in you. Then if you are firmly seated in that seat where even these two kinds of ahahkaras are given up, one by one, then such a state is the ripe Brahmic state seat. The non-identification of the I' with the visible body (or the visibles) is the Nirvana proclaimed by the Vedas."
Such is the teaching of the Yoga Vasishtha. We can now easily understand what Jesus meant when he said :
“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
In plain language, it means that he who identifies his life with the lowest, i.e., the third kind of ahankara,