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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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GODS.
ing pleasure and pain in the course of his wanderings. He is the pilgrim who has to free himself from the attachments of the world to reach the holy Shrine of his own Divinity. Till perfection is attained, he remains in the clutches of destiny of which he is himself the author, and, consequently, liable to changes of forms and states, that is, births and deaths. Different kinds of karmic forces drag him about in the world, in different forms, giving rise to different experiences in the course of transmigration.
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The jiva is the greatest living force in himself and not liable, by nature, to be influenced by any other force, or forces; but he becomes vulnerable by his own inclinations, longings and desires.
Hence, it is his own longings for the things of the world which go to weaken his native vigour, and bind him down hand and foot with the chords of karma. His free nature is, however, constantly at war with his evil inclinations and pursuits. Thus, there rages a constant battle in the field of action, the physical body, between the natural qualities of the soul and the forces of karma, in which the scale sometimes turns in favour of the jiva, but mostly against him. The powers of the soul are diminished daily by the struggle raging in its own house. Thus arise the different kinds of disabilities which Jainism points out and which constitute the bondage that is holding us down in captivity.
And it is this bondage which Jesus of Nazareth referred to when he said :
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."-John viii. 32.