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The Chandogya Upanishad - 4-2- 31 Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================== Wednesday 15, July 2026, 19:00. Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self Section 3: The Space Within the Heart Post-31. ========================================================================================== Section 3: The Space Within the Heart: The capacity to fulfil a desire is actually the power of the vision to find out where the object of desire is and what connection the object has with one's own self. The lack of this vision in respect of the object of desire is the impediment which acts as an obstacle to the fulfilment of the desire. Desires are really the visions of consciousness which act in different ways, in different levels of experience. When, due to the locking up of consciousness in a particular level of experience, it cannot visualise what is outside it or beyond it, then it becomes difficult for it to come in contact with the objects of its desires. Mantram-1. Ta i...

The Chandogya Upanishad - 4-2- 30 Swami Krishnananda.

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=========================================================================================================== Saturday 06, June 2026, 19:40. CHAPTER 4: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE SELF Section: 1.The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-2 Post-30. ===================================================================================================== Section: 1. The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-2. The objects of desire appear to be outside us, which is the reason why we take time to realise our objectives. There is a distance in space and in time between ourselves as centres of volition and the objects outside. Therefore, naturally there is delay in time. The time taken by us in the realisation of our objectives is due to the existence of space which looks very vast outside and which looks very puny inside. The other reason is that we have no control over the objects of our desires. Our desires are not truth-filled, not satyakamas. They are artificially ...