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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RECONCILIATION.
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versions. The confusion becomes most aggravating when words having a special significance in one language are translated into another having no word to represent them with.
If we would avoid the confusion of thought which has been a prolific source of trouble and has frequently led to bloodshed in the past, we must make up our minds to reject all but the most scientific method of study and metaphysical inquiry. We must avoid the pernicious habit of hasty generalization and reject the deduction which seeks to triumph over opposition by the broadest of assumptions and the cheapest presumption. True metaphysics, it will be observed, is wedded to science; it takes its facts directly from nature, and does not allow an inference to be drawn till all the arguments for and against a given proposition are sought out, investigated and duly weighed. It would not jump to a conclusion like the one we had had occasion to consider in connection with the permanency of the state of moksha--all things involved in Time and Space are evanescent, therefore moksha, too, must be a passing state of existence!
As an argument it betrays advocacy of an indefensible cause; as a declaration of opinion, lack of sober judgment. If the propounders of the argument had taken the trouble to study the problem from the standpoint of physics, they would have observed that all things involved in Time and Space are not necessarily ephemeral; for all simple substances, e.g., atoms of matter, are eternal, although they exist in Space and continue in Time.