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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his body as a living sacrifice.* A broken spirit, with all traces of pride and carnality crushed out, is the sacrifice which is immediately acceptable to the Lord. We must, however, see that this is not done in the spirit of Pharisee hypocrisy. When the devotee offers his little personality, or ahankara, with bowed head, bent neck and bended knees, the sacrifice cannot but be accepted, and the sacrificer is rewarded with life eternal as its reward.
RESURRECTION.
Why this is so, is easy enough to see. The soul inflated with the pride of personality, i.e., ahankara, has wound round itself a number of coils of desires, and suffers from the tightness of the 'cords.' And the strangest thing about it is this that, although it smarts and shrieks, and yells from pain, its pride is not lessened, but goes on increasing, and the cords of ignorance cut deeper and deeper into its 'flesh.' Hundreds and thousands of beings are born and die in this condition, never caring to know the reason why of their excruciating pain; and yet the cure is simple enough the moment the diagnosis is made. The cords cut deeper and deeper into the skin, because it is inflated from within. The cause of this is ahankara. Need we prescribe the cure now? To the thoughtful it is apparent. Take off a little of the air from the ahankara, and relief would come instantaneously. Remove the ahan
* Cf. "The camels slain for sacrifice have we appointed for you as symbols of your obedience unto God.........Their flesh is not accepted of God, neither their blood; but your piety is accepted of him." (Al Koran, Chap. XXII.) Now, the camel is noted for its long neck; hence, bending one's neck in obedience to the command of God, is what is intended by its sacrifice.