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it? New restaurant or old restaurant, it does not matter much to me. I never ask for food in any other place except in my house, or in some of my brother aspirant’s houses. I may be a fool, I agree I don’t fit in, but then I have got a freedom, where as others seem not to care for.
Then next, bodies about which we have to talk about. We have seen that the development of viveka is nothing but trying to control our lower tendencies and moving on to this first control over basic urges and impulses. The whole of Vedanta psychology is going about all the time talking about this, day in and day out, as if that is the end of the matter. The temporariness of our existence i.e. life of the body is a fundamental fact and thereby exhorting to develop a detached outlook towards these urges and also totally curb them. Sat- Asat Viveka is nothing but knowing that everything is transitory. The whole of Buddhism is based on that and the whole of Advaita is based on that. But unfortunately life is not confined to Buddhism or Advaita, what to do, we have got to move on. There are many other things to tackle about except knowing only that. Knowing only that is not jnana nor is it kaivalya. That alone has made people tend to all sorts of sanyasa methods. They are
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