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 laid open along lines which are compatible with the highest and noblest aspirations of the soul. When we regulate our conduct on truly religious lines, we shall find an easy solution for all those problems of modern times which have hitherto proved insoluble. The contest between capital and labour which has been growing keen for some time past, and for which no satisfactory remedy has been found as yet, is an instance in point.
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So long as people leave out of consideration the fact that the tables might be turned, and their own future incarnation might take place in the very class which they are now trying to keep down, there is little chance of arriving at a conclusion which would yield satisfaction to both the parties to the contest. At present, one side are eager to accumulate all the money they can, forgetting that it is neither the end nor the means for the realization of bliss, but only a means for the procuring of those luxuries and other accoutrements of voluptuous 6 disease so often mistaken for ease.' The soul can neither carry with it its millions of gold and silver into the grave, nor avoid with their aid a tittle of the punishment which the path of mammon entails; nor, yet, can it claim its previous earthly wealth in a subsequent incarnation. The value of vast accumulations of money in our own coffers, a very small portion of which would suffice to lessen the burden of some unfortunate creature, is, then, reduced to the satisfaction we feel in the idea of being considered rich by our neighbours and friends. When we set against it the harın its acquisition- not always strictly in accord with the rigorous code of morals--does to the