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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663 place in the mind when consciousness awakens from sleep. It is certain that Kapila's inspiration consisted neither in a divine revelation nor in any rational sciences, but solely and simply in an imaginary analogy which he sought to establish between nature and the human consciousness, and which he simply assumed to avoid further trouble. Kapila's system, however, marks an advance on the rigid Idealism of Advaitism which denies reality to all except consciousness. Kapila in effect agrees with Advaitism as to the unreality of the objects of the senses, holding that their existence consists in their being perceived, that is, in the states of the perceiving consciousness; but he maintains that the changes of states of consciousness themselves require the presence of an independent cause which must be co-existent with consciousness. To this cause, conceived as the source or substratum of change, is transferred all that is changing in consciousness. Having found a basis for the states of individual consciousness, Kapila devoted himself to develop perceptions in it, which he finally achieved by projecting the data of sensations in a spatial sense. It will be now evident that Kapila knows nothing of an outside world, apart from the projections of his own mind, i.e., the transformations of his sensations; for the sensations-flavour and the like,-are described as transformations of the ahamkâra, and conceived to consist of subtle elements which are transformed into the grosser material of concrete things. Unfortunately for this line of thought, it never seems to have occurred to Kapila that a sensation does not originate entirely in the mind, and that it consists in the prevailing psychic state plus
THE HOLY TRINITY.