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.
sole object of religious worship. If the truth is to betold, it was never intended that any worship beyond meditation on the different aspects of Life, which manifests itself in all the 330,000,000 forms spoken of in the Puranas, was to be performed. The Vedas could not very well teach "That thou art," and yet enjoin the worship of mythological deities at the same time. It is the meditation on the nature of Life which is worship in the true sense of the word ; begging for favours from another can never be the means of salvation. Far from thinning delusion, begging only goes to deepen it. The same is the case with all other rituals and ceremnonies, whether they be performed for the special benefit of the souls of the departed, or for those of the living. They all tend to give prominence to the lower personality or nature, and prevent us from grasping the sense of the mahâvâkyas (great sayings, or truisms), such as “I am Brahman."
So far as the forms of these spiritual conceptions, Bralıma and others, are concerned, they have been conceived with the greatest precision in the different mythologies ; but as they personify powers and faculties of an exceedingly complex nature, it is not always easy to comprehend them fully. These mythological deities, however, are not to be confounded with actual beings, Indras, demons, and the like, who are living beings like ourselves. There is absolutely no reason why the bhůta, the preta, the goblin, the elf and the like, should not exist at all. They have been seen by men in all coun. tries and in all times. They are not disembodied spirits, but possess bodies made of the same material as ourselves, although of a finer quality. The remark made