CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Further Talks With Prakasananda

Sripad Sankaracharya has unceremoniously obscured the Krishna Con-
sciousness described in the Purusa Vedanta Sutra by manufacturing an indirect
interpretation, and giving up the direct interpretation. But unless we take all
the statements of Vedanta Sutra as self-evident, there is no need to study Vedanta
Sutra. To interpret the verses of Vedanta Sutra according to one’s own whimsy
is the greatest disservice to the self-evident Vedas.

So far as Omkara Pranava is concerned, He is considered the sound incarna-
tion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; as such Omkara is eternal,
unlimited, transcendental, supreme, and indestructible. He is the beginningless,
and He is the beginning, middle and end. When one understands the Omkara
as such, then he becomes immortal. One should know Omkara as a representa-
tion of the Supreme situated in everyone’s heart. Anyone who understands
Omkara and Vishnu as one and the same and all-pervading, never laments
in the material world, nor does he remain anymore as a Sudra.

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