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.
kara completely, and the pain is gone. It is for this reason that the great teacher Shankaracharya says, somewhere in his writings, that the Samadhi (trance) of self-realization removes in a few minutes the sins of a hundred years. Suppose we tightly wind a cord a couple of miles long round an inflated body, and then try to take it off as quickly as possible. There are two principal ways of doing so : one is the tedious method of removing the coils one by one, but the other, and by far the quicker, method, is to take out the air from the inflated body, when all the coils would fall off at once of their own accord. The same is the case with sin, the accumulated deposit of evil karma on the soul. There is this difference between an inflated body and the soul that, while the former is filled with extraneous wind, the latter is puffed up with its own vanity, since ahankara is only the pride of personality. Evil karmas bind the soul hand and foot with the cord made from its notions of 'my' and 'mine;' and it feels greater and greater pain as its sense of meum and teum becomes enlarged in its consciousness. . God is, however, ready, so to speak, to help it in its trouble, but cannot do so till a sacrifice is offered. The ignorant suggest the ·slaughter of dumb animals, but the God within desires not blood, for that can only tighten the coils of evil karma, in consequence of the cruelty involved in the act of sacrificial butchery. Thus, the only sacrifice which God can accept is that of the head, the neck (or the face) and the knees of the soul's ahankara, which the ancients symbolized by the ram, the bull and the hegoat, respectively. This brief analysis, let us hope, will