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.
possible knowledge, unlimited by Time or Space, is always the state of consciousness of a deified soul. In other words, the emancipated soul is simply jñanamayee (embodiment of knowledge), being pure consciousness in essence.
We must now attend to the part played by memory in our dreams.
As to this, we have already seen in a general way that the psychic apparatus of dreams consists of (1) consciousness, (2) ideas and (3) the energy of mind which operates on the ideas; but we must look a little inore deeply into the mystery of that strange condition of our consciousness to be able to understand its causation properly.
The very first question which arises in this connection is, why should one dream at all? In other words, what relation does the dream bear to the normal process of perception? In answering this, we must confine ourselves to the normal ego to be able to get at the mechanism of dreams in the natural state of its working.
Analysis shows that a dream differs from waking perception mainly in so far as it is not accompanied by full consciousness, that is to say, the will is more or less reluctant to rouse the intellect at the time, and is easily satisfied with the presentations which memory puts up before it.
As Bergson says: "When we are sleeping naturally, it is not necessary to believe, as bas often been supposed, that our senses are closed to external sensations. Our senses continue to be active. They act, it is true, with less precision, but in compensation they embrace a host of subjective' impressions which pass unperceived when we are