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THE MYSTERY
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Yet though the outer form of this millennia-old work looks unusual, it has not lost any of its original fascination, impact and practicality. A growing number of people searching for purpose beyond material saturation recognize it as their main key to unknown dimensions of their existence. - The new frontier of human experience lies within us. - The Tattvarthasutra outlines exactly how to explore these uncharted dimensions.
The Tattvarthasutra covers three major themes: Part 1 - chapter 1 - introduces the sheer magnitude of our potential. It explains how this universe supports the physical expression of all the ideals, desires, ideas and aspirations deep within us. It describes channels through which to access knowledge of higher order and how to intuitively discriminate between truth and error. It reveals how to experience higher dimensions of our consciousness.
Part 2 - chapter 2 to 5 - outlines the levels of existence on which life manifests. This part also deals with the purpose and functions of time, space, matter and other basic elements of this universe.
Part 3 - chapter 6 to 9 - alerts us to the factors that limit our present state of life and explains how to remove their causes. Chapter 10 describes our shift into a state free from all limitations, where we gain access to the entire breadth and richness of our potential.
The first part of the ancient manuscript (chapter 1) is published as 'THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE' by Hermann Kuhn (also at Crosswind Publishing). .
KARMA - THE MECHANISM. presents the third part of the Tattvarthasutra (chapter 6, 8, and part of chapter 9). It alerts us to deep-rooted, hidden mechanisms that govern all our actions and tells us how to control them. The work contains all parts of the Tattvarthasutra that explain the karmic mechanisms relevant to our present times (chapter
nating higher dimensions of consciousness the sutras describe. It also does not automatically bestow the ability to translate this work into a language easily understood by those in search of this information.
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