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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tion of each individual atom from all the rest of its kind, and in its being doomed to an eternal, solitary confinement. The one is, however, as inconceivable as the other, for nowhere' is as great an absurdity as absolute vacuity, and isolation is only possible in Space, never in spacelessness. As Deussen says, it is impossible to be nowhere, or in two different places at one and the same time.
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That Space is a reality and not an absolute vacuum, is also evident from the fact that our notion of absolute vacuity, or void, is, at bottom, only what Bergson calls a self-destructive idea (Creative Evolution, pp. 296299). The fact is that an absolute void is an impossibility in Nature, and is altogether inconceivable by the mind, the true conception of vacuity, or what it really and logically implies, being only founded upon the idea of " room, however much the untrained mind might allow itself to be confused by the two terms. Starting from the notion of emptiness arising from the perception of a room or place devoid of all sensible things, the man in the street expands his conception of vacuity till the boundaries of finitude melt away in the limitlessness of the infinite. He now imagines himself to have acquired an absolutely accurate image of pure vacuum, and insists upon positing it in place of Space. But it is obvious that what he has got hold of is not absolute nothing, but the pure concept of an infinite expanse containing nothing, which is a very different thing; for pure expansion is not thinkable in the absence of a substance in which it might inhere, so that, at bottom, our friend's conception of emptiness actually and truly represents our idea of
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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.