3. Why do we suffer? by Andrea Parent https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d Period 8 en-us 2018-09-27 15:04:08 UTC 2019-12-01 23:29:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Arsh Siddiqui https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647104 “The answer is that these forms of suffering, which one sincerely struggles to overcome, are experienced by individual awareness but not by the very principle of awareness, which remains ever-free, ever-blissful.” (47)]]> 2019-11-06 18:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647104 Arsh Siddiqui https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647285 “There is venom in the snake that may cause others to die or which may be used as a healing medicine, but this substance is neither positive nor medicine to the snake”(47)]]> 2019-11-06 18:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647285 Anna Gillespie https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647391  “Whosoever works for me alone, makes me his only goal and is devoted to me, free from attachment and without hatred towards any creature, that man, O prince, shall enter me.” (39) ]]> 2019-11-06 18:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647391 Anna Gilllespie https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647834 “Bodies are said to die, but That which possesses the body is eternal. It cannot be limited or destroyed. Therefore, you must fight.” (28) ]]> 2019-11-06 18:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407647834 Hannah Casey 14416291 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407648485  Everyone will attain God-consciousness and be liberated...Without any exception, all living beings will eventually know their own true nature to be timeless awareness.” (45)]]> 2019-11-06 18:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407648485 Hannah Casey 14416291 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407648941  “When consciousness of the Atman manifests itself, man becomes free from the jaws of death.” (13)]]> 2019-11-06 18:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407648941 Sophia 14506031 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407649271 “Leaving the transient, find joy in the eternal: set not your heart on others possessions”(9)]]> 2019-11-06 18:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407649271 Javaria Khattak https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407649699 “United with Brahman, Cut free from the fruit of the act, A man finds peace In the work of the spirit. Without Brahman, Man is a prisoner, Enslaved by action, Dragged onward by desire” (33). 


]]> 2019-11-06 18:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407649699 Sophia 14506031 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407649733  “A man whose mind wanders among desires, and is longing for objects of desire, goes again to life and death according to his desires”(16)]]> 2019-11-06 18:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407649733 Javaria Khattak https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407650239  “I can see it: A doubt that lingers/ deep in your heart/ Brought forth by delusion. You doubt the truth/ Of the living Atman.
 Where is your sword/ Discrimination?/ Draw it and slash/ Delusion to pieces./ Then arise/ O son of Bharata:/ Take your stand/ In karma yoga” (34).
]]> 2019-11-06 18:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407650239 Kaynat Khattak https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407650696  “The quality of the soul determines its future body: earthly or airy, heavy or light. Its thoughts and its actions can lead it to freedom, or lead it to bondage, in life after life.” Pg 19]]> 2019-11-06 18:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407650696 Valeska A. https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407650897  “A serene spirit accepts pleasure and pain with an even mind, and is unmoved by either.” (27)]]> 2019-11-06 18:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407650897 Kaynat Khattak https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651197  “The soul is born and unfolds in a body, with dreams and desires and the food of life. And then it is reborn in new bodies, in accordance with its former work    ” Pg  19]]> 2019-11-06 18:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651197 Meagan Kiss https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651210 “He that should flee beyond the heaven far away would not be free from King Varuna. His spies come hither from heaven, with a thousand eyes do they watch over the earth” (6).]]> 2019-11-06 18:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651210 Fatima Ahmed 1469243 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651275 “The feelings of… pain, are caused by the contact of senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them. A serene spirit accepts pleasure and pain with an even mind, and is unmoved by either”, (Upanishads 27). 


]]> 2019-11-06 18:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651275 Valeska A. https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651558  “He must accept pleasure and pain with equal tranquility” (39)]]> 2019-11-06 18:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651558 Meagan Kiss https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651774 “Who sees the many and not the ONE, wanders on from death to death” (13).]]> 2019-11-06 18:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407651774 Fatima Ahmed 1469243 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407652052  “When he has no lust, no hatred, A man walks safely among the things of lust and hatred… In his peaceful joy: Sorrow melts… [however] The man who stirs up his own lusts can never know peace”, (Upanishads 30).]]> 2019-11-06 18:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407652052 Juvianna 1720528 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407657955  “Who is poor? He who is not contented” (41)]]> 2019-11-06 18:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407657955 Caroline Miller https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407663107 “The man who surrenders his human will leaves sorrows behind, and behold the glory of the Atman by the grace of the creator.”13]]> 2019-11-06 18:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407663107 Caroline Miller https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407664288  “The first is the human soul who, resting on that tree, through active, feels sad in his wisdom. But on beholding the power and glory of the higher Spirit, he becomes free from sorrow.” 16]]> 2019-11-06 18:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407664288 https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407682736 2019-11-06 19:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407682736 Alia Amanpour https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407689441 “How, then, can we arrive at any explanation of naturally caused misery, human viciousness, pervasive unhappiness?” The answer is that these forms of suffering, which one sincerely struggles to overcome, are experienced by individual awareness, which remains ever-free, ever-blissful. There is venom in the snake that may cause others to die or which may be used as a healing medicine, but this substance is neither poison nor medicine to the snake.” (47)


]]> 2019-11-06 19:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407689441 Alia Amanpour https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407690533  “The only true sacrifice to offer God, O lovers of God, the only authentic renunciation that can clear away obstacles to spiritual progress, is to abandon once and for all this constant drive for self-perpetuation, this instinctive urge to survive and dominate which manifests in so many subtle and obvious forms-including the obsession with becoming holy or elevated.” (44)]]> 2019-11-06 19:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/407690533 Afton jaster https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/418232642   “A serene spirit accepts pleasure and pain with an even mind, and is unmoved by either.” (27)]]> 2019-12-01 23:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/418232642 Afton Jaster https://padlet.com/aparent2/kgqkpt3g2d/wish/418232712  “I can see it: A doubt that lingers/ deep in your heart/ Brought forth by delusion. You doubt the truth/ Of the living Atman.
 Where is your sword/ Discrimination?/ Draw it and slash/ Delusion to pieces./ Then arise/ O son of Bharata:/ Take your stand/ In karma yoga” (34).


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