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An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra - 9.2 - Swami Krishnananda.

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  =================================================================================== Saturday 11, January 2025, 05:30.  Chapter 9: The Causal Law as a Limitation -2. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== Sarvarambha hi doshena dhumenagnirivavritah. (Bhagavad Gita 18.48) "Anything that one does produces a cloud of reaction; It will not bring satisfaction!" Actually, liberation means liberation from the notion of cause and effect, that something comes from something. As the mind is involved in the web of causal law, who will liberate the mind from the network of Cause and effect'? This is why Jnana Yoga path is considered difficult. It is like trying to melt down one's own personality. Actually, liberation means liberation from the notion of cause and effect, that something comes from something. As the mind is involved in the web of causal law, who will liberate the mind from the network of 'cause an...

An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra - 9.1 - Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================== Tuesday 03, December 2024, 05:30.  Chapter 9: The Causal Law as a Limitation -1. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== Chapter 9: The Causal Law as a Limitation-1; Inasmuch as we cannot forget that we are just physical bodies, however much we may theoretically say that we are not the bodies, the inveterate feeling that we are just the body only situated in one place only does not easily leave us. That there is something outside the body – there is a big world outside – this feeling also one cannot avoid. That there is a world outside is a feeling consequent upon the feeling that we are inside the body. So, if we feel that we are not inside the body really, then the world is not outside us. But who can say that we are not in the body? Whatever be the learning of a person – saint or sage – whoever he is, he will feel 'I am sitting here ...