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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motive, whether that idea be consciously present in the mind, or unconsciously lying at the bottom of some state of feeling.
There is always the idea of the end to be achieved which precedes the action of will, so that wherever we encounter determination or choice, we must expect to find intelligence behind it. When a bird builds its nest it proceeds to do so with a determination, not haphazard. The difference between the act of the bird in building its nest and that of a man in making his house is not in respect of will, for the determination to build is present in each instance, nor in respect of the end to be served by the act, since this also is present in both instances, in one felt as a kind of sensation of necessity, and in the other perceived as an idea, but in respect of the power of deliberation observable in man and presumably absent in the bird. The end and the determination to achieve it are, thus, the same in either case, but the difference lies in respect of the idea into which the feeling of necessity for building a place of shelter is translated in the case of man, but not in that of the bird. The knowledge of the bird, then, consists in the feeling of necessity, while that of man also includes the idea of the house into which that feeling is translated by his superior intellect.
THE HOLY TRINITY.
What is commonly understood by knowledge, however, does not include feelings and mental tendencies within its scope. We are accustomed to apply that word exclusively to our ideas or dry facts and formulæ of logic and other kindred sciences, though, strictly speaking, knowledge is preserved in the modifications