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.
658 Self. This was the path of Wisdom and Life, but he preferred that of sensuality, that is, of looking outwards. Now, because looking outwards signifies a longing to differentiate and distinguish between the qualities of the phenomenal, and depends on sensations which require the organs of sensation and action to form the media of intercourse between the ego and the objects without, therefore, the wish, being a directive force, unfolded the longed for organs, and extended them out to the 'coat of skin.
Such is the explanation to be gathered from the ancient records, in the light of the systems of Sankhya and the Advaita Vedanta, which differ mainly about the nature of the ultimate being or reality, one maintaining the duality of the seer and the seen, but the other, the existence of only one reality, the Absolute. The Advaita view has already been subjected to criticism in an earlier chapter and found to be untenable as a philosophical doctrine. We shall, therefore, now proceed to examine the other system which occupies a place of honour in Hindu metaphysics.
The insufficiency of the Sankhyan thought has been commented upon by more writers than one, and even Hindu commentators have not always been able to suppress their sense of disappointment, or to withhold blame. The following free comment from a friendly Hindu source on the doctrines of the six schools of Hindu metaphysics, including Kapila's, may be read with interest in this connection:
“He Vijñana Bhiksu, a commentator on Sankhya) was fully aware of the fact that none of the six Darkanas, for example, was, as we