POWERFUL COGNITION
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Human consciousness can rise to the intuitive level, in which awareness results in high action. This is the potential of the Divine inherent in all of us
।16.11
चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः ।
कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः
॥ १६=११॥
cintāmaparimeyāṁ ca
pralayāntāmupāśritāḥ
kāmopabhogaparamā etāvaditi niścitāḥ
Obsessed with endless anxiety lasting
until death, considering sense
gratification their highest aim, and
convinced that sense pleasure is
everything
POWERFUL COGNITION
Once we know how to lead our life without fantasies with responsibility, the fear of death disappears.
16.12
आशापाशशतैर्बद्धाः कामक्रोधपरायणाः ।
ईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्चयान्
॥१६-१२॥
āśāpāśaśatairbaddhāḥ
kāmakrodhaparāyaṇāḥ īhante
kāmabhogārtham
anyāyenā’rthasañcayān
bound by hundreds of ties of desire and
enslaved and filled with anger, they
strive to obtain wealth by unlawful
means to fulfill sensual pleasures
POWERFUL COGNITION
If we intensely experience these events born out of desires and perceived by our senses, we find that neither the peaks thrill us nor the valleys sadden us. We don't need to suppress or ignore these emotions; we can experience them fully without differentiation and move on.