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.
ment is actually executed, the progress of consciousness in Time inust be a real journey in some way. Analysis discloses the fact that the movement of continuity is not a process of translation from place to place, but a sort of revolving on oneself, so that each revolution gives us a new now,' while, at the same time, leaving us wbere we were before, in all other respects. Introspection confirms this conclusion fully, for, while the consciousness of continuity implies a constant movement from the past towards the present, it involves neither an idea of locomotion in space, nor a notion of the change of identity. The consciousness of Time, then, is the consciousness of a movement of internal rotation of some kind. Any one who withdraws himself into his inner being, and concentrates his attention on the awareness of continuity, will feel himself emerging into each now' as the same individual, and will also know the present moment to consist in the feeling of self-awareness which life has of its own existence, independently of the sense-organs. This feeling of progress is precisely the one from which springs our consciousness of Time, and that which enables this progress to be made is the substance of Time.
Time, thus, is the substance which enables things to continue in nature. The Jainas, therefore, define Time as a substance, which assists other substances in their continuity. Just as the central iron pin of a potter's wheel is necessary for its revolving, so is Time, i.e., the substance of Time, necessary for the
revolving' of substances in nature. These revolutions, however, are not to be taken as an actual whirling