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SUTRAS
THE KEY TO THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
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thereby prevent us from experiencing superior, far broader dimensions.
When we seriously begin to direct our activities towards inner growth, we rapidly become able to arrange our actions so intelligently that unwanted themes of life either fall away or are completed in their shortest possible time.1 Insights into superior lev
els of consciousness will then rise automatically. Freedom from all limiting influences (moksa) is a state where all our hidden abilities are fully realized. These abilities, which all of us always carry within us, open such breathtaking breadth and depth of comprehension, love, power and the experience of and capacity for happiness, Western culture has no concept to match. We reach this ultimate freedom when we remove all elements that block the unrestricted operation of our consciousness. Once these blocks are fundamentally gone, we automatically gain access to this highest status of our life.
The Tattvarthasutra offers us a method to realize this highest status. It contains a practical key that systematically opens hidden dimensions of our consciousness. This key is not shrouded in obscure language or requires the exercise of mystic techniques, it simply interprets life from a new angle. Yet this new angle enables us to arrange the components of our daily life in such a way that more expansive insights will rise automatically.
When we put this method into practice, we enter a path to total self-determination and to the attainment of abilities generally attributed to supernatural beings only. Yet we reach this state not by fickle divine sanction, the attendance to mystic powers or through surrender to a guru. The method of the Tattvarthasutra causes - in step
1 The chapter 'FIVE FREEDOMS' introduces the main factors that assist this
process. KARMA - THE MECHANISM (also by Hermann Kuhn) explains the practical application of this knowledge in daily life.
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