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 IDEAL.
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other data available in the days of primitive humanity. Whence could they have learnt it, indeed, if not from the only source from which we all learn anything that is learnt even now-a-days. Whence did Sir Isaac Newton learn the law of gravitation ? From the falling apple? Surely not, but from meditation and deliberation. All knowledge comes from these two sources. Nature is the open book of Truth, he who would meditate over it would learn the secret. The sages took the hint, and applied themselves to the study of this Open Book. With the help of the torch of Intellect and Reason they pursued their search with zeal and untiring energy, and rested not till the Almighty God revealed himself to them in his full glory.
Knowledge thus acquired was gradually imparted to others who, not being so wise as their teachers, put their own interpretations on their teachings. We thus got the numerous sects and religious bodies which exist in the world. In the main, all the schools of thought fall into two great classes, namely, those which believe in the existence of the Principle of Life, that is, God, and those that do not believe in him. The former alone need be referred to here, and they are again divided into three groups. First come those who believe in a God as the creator and sustainer of the Universe, but separate from Nature and the human soul. He is regarded in this system as a capricious, whimsical, despotic monarch, easily offended at slights, however unconsciously offered, hard to please, and always to be dreaded. The highest ideal of happiness provided by this system consists in life in heaven-a sort of boarding house,