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.
creation is a matter of necessity which arises out of the thought of his own one-ness in his mind. Hence, what is a necessity or law from the standpoint of the created, is from that of Reality mere play. Hence, also, when it is said 'desire first arose in It which was the primeval germ of Mind,' the word desire is not employed in the same sense in which it is ordinarily employed by men, but to express the idea of pleasure or will (the Sanskrit ichchha) of Brahman.
As every being experiences pleasure when engaged in the full exercise of his natural function, the pleasure of Brahman, who is pure Consciousness, consists in an unbroken thought of Self-awareness. Now, since by the necessity of accurate knowledge, it becomes necessary to define the terms of our thought, and since perfect knowledge of a thing is possible only when it has been contrasted with all those that it is not, therefore, every idea includes its own negation, in itself. Thus, the definition of unity involves its own opposite within itself, although the purpose to be served by this other than itself' is merely that of accentuating its sense by a repudiation of its imaginary antithesis (see the Pranava Vada, Vol. II. pp. 240 and 241).
With the awakening of the consciousness of 'I am' or Self, the Understanding, spider-like, spins out its world-web; producing the material and all from within itself. The necessity of this, as has already been seen, lies in the process of Self-defining, culminating in the judgment 'I This not.' With the creation of the 'This,' the antithesis of 'I,' Will rushes, as it were, towards the imaginary multitudinous This,' and the Under