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sorrow and attainment of         and there, meet people, get
        supreme bliss. Fear is caused by  married, have children, acquire
        something other than me. So,     property. All this is to eliminate
        wherever there is a notion of    finitude and become infinite.
        duality, there will be fear. In  Can any  karma or action make
        Bhaja  Govindam  (verse 29),     me infinite?
        Bhagavan Sankaracharya says:        Anything which is the result
        puträdapi  dhanabhäjäà bhétiù –  of action will also be limited by
        even from your children you      that very fact. That which is
        can experience a sense of inse-  attained in time will also fade
        curity. From strangers, the level  away in time. It will not be
        of discomfort will be greater.   infinite. Clearly, through action,
        Otherness is the cause of  räga-  the finite cannot become
        dveña  – attachment and hatred.  infinite. Finitude means morta-
        Hatred is immediate sorrow and   lity, death, modification and
        attachment  is sorrow post-      change. Through action, the
        poned. Both are nothing but      mortal cannot become immor-
        sorrow. So  ätyantika duùkha-    tal. To remind ourselves of this,
        nivåtti is possible only by elimi-  we chant: na karmaëä na prajayä
        nating the sense of duality.     dhanena tyägenaike amåtatvamä-
                                         naçuù – not by action, not
        The Means to Attain
                                         through progeny, not by means
        Liberation
                                         of wealth can we get liberation.
          As long as there is finitude,  That can be attained only by
        there will be a sense of insecu-  renunciation of my ego – the
        rity. It means that I am not com-  notion of my limited self.
        plete. To fill the gap and become   Through no process can the
        complete, we perform a multi-    finite become infinite, the con-
        tude of actions – wander here    ditioned become unconditioned.



                                      Both in pain and in illness, may
           Vasudev Badethalav         we learn to watch for and
                                      apprehend His intelligence.
              Sydney, Australia
                                               Swami Chinmayananda





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