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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It is not necessary to suppose that they are in our memory in a state of inert impressions. They are like the steam in a boiler, under more or less tension....I believe indeed that all our past life is there, preserved even to the infinitesimal details, and that we forget nothing, and that all that we have felt, perceived, thought, willed, from the first awakening of our consciousness, survives indestructibly. But the memories which are preserved in these obscure depths are there in the state of invisible phantoms. They aspire, perhaps, to the light, but they do not even try to rise to it; they know that it is impossible, and that I, as a living and active being, have something else to do than to occupy myself with them. But suppose that at a given moment, I become disinterested.........in other words, that I am asleep. Then these memories perceiving that I have taken away the obstacle, have raised the trap-door which has kept them beneath the floor of consciousness, arise from the depth."
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
It should be noted that the psychic force, the will, is not in an active state during sleep, and that the consciousness of the sleeper is then rid of the mental tumult arising from the din and bustle as well as the worries and anxieties which absorb attention during the waking hours of life, so that many of the movements which pass unnoticed during the day impinge on his mind with great force. Similarly, sensations originating in parts and changes of the body of which one is unconscious during the waking state, burst on the drowsy consciousness with great force. It is for this reason that a slight sensation of heat is felt as walking on fire, and so forth. If the stimulus continue, attention is finally roused from the lethargy of somnolence into activity to remove the cause or causes of irritation; otherwise the dream comes to an end, and the sleeper lapses once more into the deep-sleep state without actually waking up.