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 HOLY TRINITY.
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have hinted more than once, a complete system of philosophy in the Western sense, but merely a catechism explaining, and giving a reasoned account of, some of the truths revealed in the Vedas and Upanisats, to a particular class of students, confining the scope of its enquiry within the province of creation, without attempting to solve to them the transcendental riddles of the Universe, which, in their particular stage of mental and spiritual development, it would have been impossible for them to grasp."--The Sacred Books of the Hindus, Vol. ix, preface, p. xii.
The excuse found by Mr. Nandlal Sinha for the shortcomings of the founders of the six world-famous darsanas, including the Sankhya, in the passage cited, is rather lame and inadmissible, especially in the absence of anything showing perfection of knowledge in the persons concerned; but as it would be conducive to a better understanding of the causes of its failure to pursue the line of thought on which the doctrine under consideration is founded, we must endeavour to catch its author's mind actually at work in devising his system.
It would be seen that Kapila is not a believer in miracles, and does not recognize a creator who might create the world by a word of command. He discards monism for this reason. His system is a kind of dualism, consisting of a spectacle and its spectator, an unconscious show perceived by a conscious being or beings. To the spectacle belongs all that is changing, variable and shifting,--all that evolves and all that 'involves.' To the spectator is to be attributed nothing that is shifting and moving. He is a witness, and only a witness, though liable to be overpowered by ignorance. Even the intellect which disappears in deep-sleep can