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.
takes place; the consciousness of am' becomes changed into that of 'I am,' and the Understanding, waking up from its sleep-like condition of repose, interprets the significance of 'I am' by a creation and denial of the manifold Not-Self. This condition has been described by the ancient sages as 'One great flame with countless undetached sparks in it.' The Mundaka Upanishad declares*:-
“As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto fire, fly forth a thousand fold, thus are various beings brought forth from the imperishable, my friend, and return thither also."
And Job writes :
"Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upwards." -- (Job, V. 7).
In the following table † we give some further details of the making of the world :
CONSCIOUSNESS { UNDERSTANDING.
(Self).
• This,' i.e., the totality
of the manifold illusory, henco, material, Not-Self.
Not,' i.e., denial after giving a local habitation and a name,
hence, creationdestruction, i.e., energy.
Personality or
Ahamkára.
Discriminatio
Wisdom, i.e., knowledge Discrimination, i.e., experimental
knowledge of the Phenomenal (The Tree of Life). (The Tree of Knowledge of good and evil).
of Self or Litledge
Impressionability (mind staff or Chitta).
Manas.
Senses.
* Tho Mundaka Upanishad, 11.1.1.
| for a fuller account, sce 'The Science of Peace,' by Bhagwan Das, M.A.
Aham, or '1,' and atom are said to be interdependent. "In the