Archive for 2010

Sixteenth Teaching
Divine and Demonic Character Traits
Krishna
Fearlessness, purity of heart, determination in the discipline of knowledge, charity, self-control, non-violence, gentleness, honesty;
Integrity, truth, joys in the study of the scriptures, a tranquil mind, compassion for all beings, lack of greed, modesty, patience, and reliability,
dignity, kindness, resolve, clarity, absence of envy and of pride; these characterize a man [...]

Fifteenth Teaching
The Ultimate Supreme Person
Krishna:
Roots above, branches below, the realm of sorrow is the world tree, sages say; its leaves are sacred hymns.
Its branches, stretching below and above and nourished by gunas, bud in sense objects; its aerial roots tangled in actions reach downward into the world of men.
Its vast form is unknown to the [...]

Fourteenth Teaching
Nature’s (Prakriti’s) Three Qualities (Gunas)
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Krishna:
I shall teach you further about true knowledge, ultimate knowledge, that all the sages have mastered and then reached perfection.
Resorting to this knowledge, they follow my ways; when the world is created they are not reborn, when the world dissolves they suffer no sorrow.
Nature is my womb; in it I [...]