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The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 6.2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  -------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, February 14, 2021. 09:51. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 2. --------------------------------------------------------------- Great truths appear mysterious because the intellect of man is not endowed with the necessary apparatus to grasp them. There is no mystery in the teachings of the great Master who initiated Nachiketas in the Kathopanishad. We are afraid of mysteries, as if they exist. The facts which rule the world are not necessarily intellectual and logical. The mathematics and the geometry of the human understanding does not seem to be the method according to which the world operates. This is a startling discovery which was made by leaders of science, such as Einstein. The world does not work according to human arithmetic, and our calculations are not the calculations made by the universe. This is the reason why the world appears as a mystery to us, while in fact it is not a mystery. We do not h

The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 6.1. Swami Krishnananda

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, February 14, 2021. 09:51. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great truths appear mysterious because the intellect of man is not endowed with the necessary apparatus to grasp them. There is no mystery in the teachings of the great Master who initiated Nachiketas in the Kathopanishad. We are afraid of mysteries, as if they exist. The facts which rule the world are not necessarily intellectual and logical. The mathematics and the geometry of the human understanding does not seem to be the method according to which the world operates. This is a startling discovery which was made by leaders of science, such as Einstein. The world does not work according to human arithmetic, and our calculations are not the calculations made by th

The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 5.12 : Swami Krishnananda.

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  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, February 01, 2021. 06:13.PM. Chapter-5.  Sannyasa – The Renunciation of Erroneous Notions - 12. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The senses are, thus, to be united with the mind, the mind in the reason, and our individually operated reason or understanding has to be regarded as a drop in the ocean of understanding, which is Mahat-tattva, Hiranyagarbha, the supreme universal reason. Thus it is that our reason has to operate in a universal manner, as if we are thinking through every person in the world. When we think, we think through all the persons and through all things by communing ourselves inwardly through consciousness with all the objects and persons that we may think are outside. Therefore, the renunciation that we are expected to execute is the renunciation from the notion of the external e