An Analysis of the Brahma Sutra - 11. 2. - Swami Krishnananda
. ======================================================================================= Friday 09 May 2025, 08:15. Chapter 11: The Preliminaries to Sadhana: 2. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== God is not so easy to attain. He is easy to attain also, in one sense but because of the obstruction of body-consciousness, it is hard to attain. Most educated people, most learned, great scholars, even saints and sages get angry if one insults them. There were Visvamitra, Durvasa – great sages – irritable types; Why are they irritable? Because whatever big tapasya they did, they could not forget that they are in the body. This is the vicious veil that has entered everyone's consciousness. Honesty with God is real honesty. Human honesty with other people, shopkeepers – that is one kind of social honesty; To be honest with God, that is a different matter altogether – it does not come under the ethics of the world. Spi...