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An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra - 4.4.- Swami Krishnananda.

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 ====================================================================== ======================================================================== Wednesday, June 22, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter - 4. The Origin of Bondage  -4. ======================================================================= The agony that is felt depends upon the intensity of the desire that is entertained through the personality during lifetime. Those who have been doing prayer, worship, meditation etc., throughout their lives and leading a holy life of goodness, compassion and servicefulness will not feel the agony of death as many others may feel. Those who are utterly corrupt, those who have swindled, smuggled, destroyed other peoples' peace and worked like dacoits and done the worst of things in the world will feel a terrible stroke on their head when they die. Why should you feel like that? If you lead a really religious life of prayer, meditation, service, goodness and compassion and love of God primarily, th

An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra - 4.3.- Swami Krishnananda.

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 ============================================================== ================================================================ Wednesday, June 08, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter - 4. The Origin of Bondage  -3. =============================================================== You have lost the Infinite and therefore now you want an infinite desire to fulfil itself through contact with numberless finite objects. This is a brief story of birth and death, an endless chain of metempsychosis – samsara. Numberless finites do not make the Infinite. When death takes place, what is actually the experience? The Panchagni Vidya is very interesting. The body becomes weak; the house says 'I am going to collapse!'; the bricks are weak, plastering is falling down; there is leaking on the top – everything will be gone completely. 'I am sneezing', 'I have got joint-pain', 'Oh' – it will go on crying. These are the symptoms of the coming of a time when the body is to be shed. What