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 SIDDHANTA.
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feeling irritated at the turning up of the unexpected, descended to the plane of discriminative intellect to discover the nature and cause of discord. The descent of will on the lower plane slackened the rhythm of the melody and spread it out, in the form of separate and discontinuous notes and pauses, in the mind. The feeling of the melody, as a whole, was thus replaced by the knowledge of the notes which composed it; and it was by using this knowledge, as a chart of discrimination, that the mind was enabled to single out the note which was falsely struck.
So far we are at one with Bergson, but when he goes further and endeavours to show that the musician, the instruments, the spectator, and space are also created by the movement of regression, it is impossible to keep him company. The truth is that will possesses the power of extension and intention, but the power only affects its awareness of the contents of its consciousness. The objects outside in the world are not affected by the change of rhythm in will, and remain where they are. Bodies and compounds, indeed, may, and do perish, from time to time; but mind refuses to believe that space, matter, ether, etc., should ever disappear altogether out of existence, though, owing to the intensity of certain types of feelings, their consciousness may be reduced to a zero-point.
The reality of space is also borne out by the fact that in order to reach things it is necessary to traverse the distance which separates them from ourselves. Further, the removal of Space can only result either in the throwing of all things into ' nowhere,' or in the complete isola