The impulses of even an extremely passionate man are arrested in face of his mother, and in the same way those of the wise cease in face of the perfect bliss of the knowledge of God. Some-one practising meditation is seen to have external functions still. Scripture declares that this is the effect of the fruits of previous conditioning. So long as pleasure and the like occur, one acknowledges the effect of previous conditioning. A result occurs because of a previous cause.
Nothing happens without a cause.
448 Recognising himself as unattached and impartial space, he never hold on to anything with the thought of actions yet to be done. 449 Space is not affected with the smell of wine by contact with the jar, and in the same way one's true nature is not affected by their qualities through contact with the things one identified oneself with. This page was published on Realization.org on May 16, 2000. All rights reserved.