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We find someone to blame and stop right there. But that 'closing' is what keeps the mind small
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam — причина всех причин (Brahma-saṁhitā 5.1)
We find someone to blame and stop right there. But that 'closing' is what keeps the mind small
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam — причина всех причин (Brahma-saṁhitā 5.1)
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"Everyone has a list of suspects — this person, the government, whatever. You find a culprit and close the case there. That's a contracted consciousness; expand it, and you stop closing the case."
Notice what the mind does when it hurts. It hunts for someone to blame — a boss, a partner, the government, the weather — and once it finds them, it sets a full stop: there's the cause, case closed. Śrī Prem Prayojan Prabhu knows the pattern: everyone has a list of suspects. But that full stop isn't truth, it's narrowness — the mind contracted and settled for the first answer. Expand it, and an honest chain of causes won't stop at any one person. Behind each cause stands another, back to the very first — Vedanta calls it the cause of all causes, the One from whom everything emanates. To stop blaming isn't to excuse harm; it's to stop burning yourself hunting a scapegoat.
Don't hunt for someone to punish. Trace the chain to the One who holds it all.
Source: Mantra and Sound · 2018-05-25
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