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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CREATION
duality of the seer and the seen, by reducing the perceptible phenomena to an illusion pure and simple, and then takes away the multiplicity of souls, leaving the perceiving faculty or power as a solitary unit-allpervading, eternal and unchanging. This is summed up in the well-known expression--eko Brahma dwityo násti-signifying that Brahman is one and there is no second.
The immutability of Brahman is made to rest on the nature of consciousness, conceived as the common property of souls, that is to say, as an abstract quality ;. for as such it is inconceiveable that consciousness. should ever cease to be itself, or become transformed into something which it is not. Hence, Vedanta is never weary of reiterating that it persists intact on all the planes of manifestation, i.e., the three states or conditions of existence known as waking, dreaming and deep sleep, to which later writers have added a fourth, namely, turiya (super-consciousness).
Such is the doctrine of the monistic Vedanta, which, in one way or another, and with certain necessary though minor variations, will be found to lie at the bottom of all systems of Idealism that aim at unification.
The hamâ aust sawgl tanto = 'all is he') doctrine of Muslim Idealism is almost a copy of the Advaita Vedanta ; it also aims at the unification of things in the unity of God.
But, unfortunately for this supposed high aim of philosophy, monism is possible only by throttling common sense, since it is opposed to concrete facts..