Sacred Philosophy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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Observation shows that happiness, like knowledge, is only a state or condition of Life itself. Certainly there is no such thing as happiness in the outside world, and even if there were, it is not easy to imagine how it could confer happiness on another. The truth is that happiness only arises from within, and generally only when the soul is freed from the load of anxiety or worry in some form or other. The feeling of joy which a school boy feels on his success in an examination only arises from within, and is clearly occasioned by the assurance that never again need that ordeal be undergone. The sense of freedom from future straining and striving is, thus, the immediate cause of joy, which, as stated before, arises from within Life's own mysterious being. Life or Soul, then, is the very Fountain-spring of joy.
Passing on now to a consideration of Eternal Life, it is easy to see that every soul is immortal by nature, being, as already noted, devoid of parts which might disintegrate or fall apart. Bodily death, it will be seen, is due to the soul's association with or ensoulment in a physical body which is liable to decompose and disintegrate, being made of atoms of matter; but that which is not made of atoms or parts is not so liable in any way. Pure spirit, then, is immortal as well, in addition to being omniscient and blissful. But om