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Krishna and Uddhava
“The Yadavas will be killed by mutual quarrel. This town will be swallowed up by the sea within seven days from today. As soon as I leave this earth, Kali will overtake it and men will become unrighteous. You should not dwell anywhere here.
“Free yourself from all attachments. Give up your affection for your friends, family, wealth, etc. Fix your mind firmly on Me. Roam about over this earth, seeing Me in all beings, looking on all beings with equal eyes. All that you see or grasp with the senses, or understand by your mind, are unreal and evanescent. They are creations of your mind, and Maya.
“This is this, this is that - this conception of difference is only the delusion of a man whose mind is distracted and uncontrolled and is not united to Me. The man of uncontrolled mind falls into the error that there is plurality of objects. This error leads to merit and demerit, or right and wrong, good and evil. The uncontrolled Jiva, who is bewildered and deluded by this apparent diversity created by the natural outward tendency of the senses, fancies himself as a separate unit in the world and begins to entertain desires and enjoys sensual objects. Duty, non-performance of duty and the performance of forbidden acts [1] result from this delusion of diversity caused by the mind, senses and intellect. The differences of action, inaction and evil action pertain only to the man who has notions of merit and demerit, right and wrong, good and bad. It is the delusion born of conception of difference, that causes the experiences or notions of right and wrong, good and bad, merit and demerit.
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