Started my reading programme; but it's not easy... have to put some brain-work into sacred reading - at least the bit I'm reading needs to be thought through. Only managed a few paragraphs, but looking forward to more tomorrow. Immediately lifts the mind to higher levels.
It's interesting; the part I read was about how any path of self-realisation is incomplete and unsuccessful unless mixed with devotional service. So, to start off with, the speaker is addressing a class of people very different to most of us riff-raff here in the West. He assumes that his hearers are already on a path of self-realisation - already have knowledge of the soul, the material energy, the modes of nature, etc. and are already practising some kind of austerities and renunciation, with a view to 'liberating' the soul from material bondage. Difficult to find a class of people like that nowadays!
Apart from that, a quiet day, today - excluding the weather, which was violently thunderous. The house shook with the wild claps of thunder and my nerves were in tatters! It lasted for hours. Well; off to bed now - happy to have started reading...
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