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.
605 pressions which the soul has brought over with itself from the past, each layer or record consisting of all whole impressions formed at one time. A'B' and A' B' are tivo such records. Now, suppose that the activity at S is inhibited on the plane U, and attention, withdrawing itself from the field of action, travels inward, in the region of memory, in search of a past experience. It would then have to travel backwards and forwards among these layers of its past impressions, till it recover the memory it is searching for. If, however, there were nothing to guide it in its pursuit of the phantoms of the past, its labour would be enormous, and oftener than otherwise in vain ; but, fortunately, the principle of similarity at once comes to its rescue, and, in the manner already pointed out, enables it speedily to get hold of a similar impression in one of the innumerable records, in the region of memory. Similarity having fixed the layer, attention no longer travels up and down between the summit and the base of the conical tower' of memory, but busies itself in exploring the storey which has been reached through similarity. Now, because all the impressions which had presented themselves together, in a single act of perception, are stored up in this particular storey, on account of contiguity in space, they all pass under the search-light of attention, yielding the required 'image.' In this manner is the process of recollection carried on, consciously or unconsciously, in the mind. The recovered impression is an affection of the ego, like perception, and is termed a recollection for that reason. So far as the functioning of the faculty of recollection is concerned, the rule is that it is obstructed by action, inasmuch as activity is