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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one without exception. It at once introduces us to its six Realities without whose aid nothing but confusion can be created. Their nature, properties, and modes of working have already been sufficiently discussed; and it is for the world to judge whether it does or does not satisfy the natural human thirst for a perfect understanding of the world-process, in conformity with the strictest demands of reason.
THE SIDDHANTA.
With the aid of its most exact metaphysics, Jainism enables us to comprehend, in the fullest possible measure, how the universe is eternal and composed of six substances, and how their interaction is the cause of the world-process. It gives us a true insight into the idea of God, and explains how the individual soul may aspire to the high and sublime status of the Holy Ones. Jainism also enables us to unravel the meaning of myths and other sacred traditions, and, on account of the manysidedness of its philosophy, is the sole means of establishing the truth underlying all creeds, each of which has fallen into error on account of the one-sided absolutism of its philosophical outlook. In short, Jaina philosophy alone furnishes a common platform where all other creeds may meet, and grasp each other's hands in the sincere grip of friendship.
The value of philosophy as the only means of salvation cannot be exaggerated. Myths only throw us into superstition, and mysticism produces intellectual fog and mist. It is clear thinking alone which can lead us into the region of Light and Life for which every soul is athirst. History shows how truth entombed in the sepulchre of myth and legend is soon
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