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make you miserable. A wise person does not crave company.
The biggest fraud that has happened in the recent times, is the theory about cholesterol. Now they say cholesterol is nothing to do with your heart. Millions of people on the planet start taking Statin and other drugs and after a period of time it has started damaging their own system.
Lord Krishna is a master of confusion.
The consciousness has the ability to experience everything without the senses. That consciousness is inside you and all around you.
The whole universe is vibrant with life force and this life force is Brahman.
The entire manifest universe is nothing but a glimpse of the unmanifest Brahman.
Why are these values considered so important in life? Because they change the quality of your consciousness.
Your consciousness can become dispassionate or attain Samadhi if you start connecting with someone who is free from cravings.
him. Why do all Jain and Buddhist temples have statues of Buddha and Mahaveer? If you see Mahaveer idol or a Jain teerthankara’s idol, all of them look alike. Though all the statues look alike you can only identify them with their symbols underneath their seats. The purpose is to get you connected to that inner being which is the same, which is one, to get into Samadhi. So you sit and think about Mahaveer, someone who wanted nothing, the pure being and you start becoming like him. You imbibe the qualities, you look at
Krishna and you imbibe the qualities of Krishna. You look at the Guru and you start imbibi...
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The spoon appears to be bent. When was this mirage created? A mirage is never created, it just appears. This entire universe or multiverse of Prakriti, the
manifest, and Purusha, the unmanifest, is beginningless and endless.
One who thus knows Purusha and Prakriti together with the gunas, no matter how one lives, will not be born again.
The attachment to the three gunas is the cause of birth. Attachment to sattvaguna, rajo guna or tamoguna or their combinations are the cause of rebirth on the planet. So when the consciousness knows that I am not these gunas, I am just the witness for the gunas then you rise to another level which is already present in you. This is Purusha.
The easiest example to describe a motionless motion is an ocean. The ocean doesn’t go anywhere but it has motion in
it. In the same way, the Self knows itself by some means that nobody knows..
Death occurs not only when the Self separates from the body, when the consciousness leaves the body but some people are living as though they are dead.
So the Brahman is also Saguna Brahma. This
