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.
is an obstruction to its unlimited vision, being attuned to a certain type of vibrations alone. This seer is the dweller immortal in the body, and not the body or the organs of the senses. Hence the Upanishad teaches : “Here within the heart is a cavity; therein he resides who is the Lord of the universe" ("The Philosophy of the Upanishads,' p. 169). It is the vision of this Dweller in the cavity of the Heart which is to be secured for emancipation. But this is impossible till the veils of matter covering the Atman and obscuring its vision are not torn to pieces. Self-perception, therefore, consists in the withdrawal of attention from the outside and the throwing back of will on itself. This is a process in which the organs of sight also play an important part. In the normal condition, the eyes are turned outwards, and enable us to perceive external objects alone, but, at times, they also converge slightly upward and inward, as in the attitude of prayer ; and when they do so we are enabled to see visions. How this happens is not difficult to understand. The peculiar upward, inward convergence of the eyes disengages the attention from the physical plane, and makes it penetrate the veils of finer matter, the astral, the mental, and the like, as they are called by the Theoso phists.
The Yogi aims at throwing his converging gaze inwardly with the full force of concentration he is capable of, till it is fixed on what is known as the pineal-gland in the brain. The pineal-gland is an organ the function of which has not been understood by physiologists as yet, but whicb, according to the Yogis, is an incipient