Bhagavad Gita 15.11 yatanto yoginaś cainaṁ paśyanty ātmany avasthitam yatanto ’py akṛtātmāno nainaṁ paśyanty acetasaḥ Striving yogis seek and see, The Self within, in [...]
The Bhagavad-gita (15.11) urges us to use jnana chakshu, or the eyes of knowledge, to understand the relationship between material reality and spiritual reality. Such [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Chp15 Overview 1-6: Attain Liberation [...]
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People sometimes ask, “Can you show me the soul?” Before we can see the soul, we need to know enough to know what to see. [...]
Suppose a person walking along a road wants to see ahead – and does so using binoculars. But as long as they are looking ahead, [...]
Our eyes are among our most used and most relied sources of perception. To make sense of things and make decisions, we want to see [...]
“The eye can’t find the I” means that the eye being material can’t perceive the real I, the soul, which is spiritual. “The I seeks [...]
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Our culture gives us a highly inflated estimate of material enjoyment. Believing this over-estimate, we make material enjoyment the essence and purpose of our life. [...]
Most people are infatuated with material pleasures. Due to such infatuation, they consider matter to be the primary, if not the only, reality. Thus, they [...]