Brahma Sutras : ( 10/04/2013. )

=================================================================================== 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 ...

=================================================================================== Saturday 26, Octberber 2024, 05:30.  Chapter - 8: Upasana – Upanishadic Meditations-7. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== People who adore God in this manner will attain the Kingdom of God but will not become God. In this connection, the Brahma Sutra says they have all the glory of God to enjoy but they do not have the powers of God; they cannot create the world; they cannot sustain the world; they cannot destroy the world. You can live in the palace of the President and enjoy all the goodies there in the President's palace, but you cannot do what the President does. You may be the brother of the President himself living in his palace, but you are not the President. Enjoying the glories of God is different from being God. This is the result of Saguna Bhakti, where according to the Brahma Sutra – jagat vyaparavarjam – all things are...