Page 28 - Conversations between a Philosopher and a Saint

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37 he seeks the real peacock. He is not like the deluded materialist or the baffled impersonalist. He is free because he serves the Lord of all crea- on and existence. He seeks the substance and not the shadow of reali- Krishna confirms that there is an eternal substance: “Yet there is anoth- er unmanifest nature, which is eternal and transcendental to this mani- fested and unmanifested ma er. It is supreme and is never annihilated. 8.20) In the transcendental world one encount

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society, birth child Pure love of God is without any selfish personal for (karma), the pursuit of knowledge and a ain to cycle the death (jnana), or the prac ce of severe master Lord Caitanya, the fi eenth century Krishna, the goal of pure spiritual life. He prays: have I Lord, accumulate wealth, nor do nor number of followers. I only want Your

life, of for performances from to within nature (yoga). of women,

family deterrent mo va on renuncia on austeri es incarna on almighty
28 mo vated religious prac ce. Even the concept of heaven becomes a place where people can con nue their materially mo vated desires We can differen ate between a transcendental prac ce of where the only goal is to a ain pure love and unselfish devo on to a personal God, Krishna; and a materially mo vated religious prac ce where the emphasis is on obtaining material success: life free from old happy form of love mixed with lust, intoxica ng rivers of wine, material

according to their belief system. death, and disease age, without gra fica on sense etc.