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.
as no one can set it free from its bonds. Our conclusion, then, is that the notion of nirvana being a temporary state of existence is altogether untenable in philosophy, and must be rejected as devoid of merit.
It might be urged that all that exists in Time and Space is subject to causality and therefore liable to change; but the argument is an instance of that perversity of metaphysical thought which delights in making sweeping generalizations regardless of facts. For it is the purest assumption to say that all that exists in Time and Space is liable to change, at least till so long as one does not prove that the Siddhâtmans are also liable to experience a 'fall' from Their high status. As for causality, its idea has been so much confounded by the use of technicalities in modern times that one finds it a relief to rely upon the voice of common sense in preference to the learned discourses of metaphysicians. Introspection here reveals the fact that mind has a tendency, born of practical observation and nourished by actual experience, to look out for the cause or causes of every event, and declines to believe that the relationship of cause and effect does not govern the whole range of occurrences in the world. This is one of the senses in which the word causality is employed. Besides this, causality also implies the action of energy upon a body, as in the melting of snow by the heat of the Sun. In this instance the heat of the Sun is called the operative and snow the material cause of the resulting stream of water. There is another significance of causality which implies the idea of an agent, as a potter is said to be the cause of the pot which he makes from clay. The