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.
absence of Faith and Knowledge of the right sort. Just as he who would bake his bread must believe in his heart of hearts that it is capable of being baked, must learn the process of baking it, and must also actually exert himself for its baking, so must he who would have Dame Success fly to embrace him on the spiritual 'path' acquire the ratna trai of Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct in the first instance.
The faith to be acquired means belief in the infallibility and truth of the doctrine of Jinas, the teaching of the Holy Ones who attained to perfection with its aid. An unwavering mental assent is what is implied by the word. With respect to its quality, faith grounded on knowledge is by far the best form of faith, but even belief induced by will will do. This comes about by acting as if the state of belief, to be induced, were true irrespective of its verification by reason. In the fulness of time, the assumed attitude will become, as it were, a habit, or emotion, and will possess all the characteristics of belief based on knowledge, and knowledge itself will arise from it in due course. Prof. James maintains :
“Nature sometimes, and indeed not very infrequently, produces instantaneous conversions for us. She suddenly puts us in an active connection with objects of which she had till then left us cold. I realize for the first time,' we then say, what that means'! This happens often with moral propositions. We have often heard them; but now they shoot into our lives, they move us ; we feel their living force. Such instantaneous beliefs are truly enough not to be achieved by will. But gradually our will can lead us to the same results by a very simple method : we need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, und keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it