STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION Ch2V12

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STUDY GROUP on SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION

 

CHAPTER 2

PRACTICE

Abhyasa

 

V.12.

 

Q. Since the Self is free from the notions of knowledge and

ignorance how can it be said to pervade the entire body in

the shape of sentience or to impart sentience to the senses?

 

M. Wise men say that there is a connection between the source

of the various psychic nerves and the Self, that this is the

knot of the heart, that the connection between the sentient

and the insentient will exist until this is cut asunder with

the aid of true knowledge, that just as the subtle and

invisible force of electricity travels through wires and does

many wonderful things, so the force of the Self also travels

through the psychic nerves and, pervading the entire body,

imparts sentience to the senses, and that if this knot is

untied the Self will remain as it always is, without any

attributes.

 

 

 

 

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