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 HOLY TRINITY.
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unity of perception. With the aid of the innate forms of understanding, attention cuts up the perceived mass into individuals, and these into organs and parts. It then resolves them into the different elements of which they are composed, and thus learns their composition. It is thus evident that the simple elements of which a mental image is composed exist in the mind; the only purpose wbich the outer stimulus serves is to set them in vibration. But for the existence of these elements in the mind, we should never be able to recall a past perception, since the recalled impression comes only from within
Any work on psychology will show that sensation is not a simple element, but is the name given to the external excitation, after it has been admitted into the inner domain of mind and been there operated upon, i.e., conditioned, by the then prevailing attitude of will. For instance, if we dip our right hand into hot, and the left one into cold, water, and then plunge them both into a basin containing lukewarm water, the former will find it cold, and the latter hot. Here, obviously, the external excitation remains the same in the case of both the hands, yet are they affected by different sensations. This clearly shows that the external excitation is conditioned by the sensations prevailing in the two hands respectively.
Similarly, when the rays from a section of the external world impinge on the eye, they originate certain movements in the nerves of the brain. These movements, or vibrations, together with the then prevailing feeling of the organism, constitute the sensation which