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    Making Sense: Understanding Can Change the World
    Making Sense: Understanding Can Change the World
    Making Sense: Understanding Can Change the World
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    Making Sense: Understanding Can Change the World

    By Dr. Prashant Kakoday

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    If someone is asleep and you tell him
    he is asleep, there is no one to listen,
    no one to understand.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBK Publications
    Release dateMay 6, 2020
    ISBN9781886872998
    Making Sense: Understanding Can Change the World

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      Making Sense - Dr. Prashant Kakoday

      Kumaris

      BECOMING FREE

      Wake up to the awareness of an eternal prince.

      Understand what is the ‘beggar’ attitude and how to become free from it.

      The Beggar Life

      The essence of the spiritual message is that there is a higher consciousness and at present we are somewhere lower, as if we are not fully awake. Different words are used to tell us that there is a problem.

      A big limitation within this is that, if someone is asleep and you tell him he is asleep, there is no one to listen, no one to understand. Only when he wakes up does he realise that he was asleep. If someone is unconscious and you tell him he is unconscious, it does not mean anything to him. This is what Plato calls ‘We don’t know that we don’t know’. We are in a double lock, in double ignorance.

      It is useful for us to know the situation so that we can find a way out of it and wake up. We use the image of a prince who has forgotten that he is a prince and thinks he is a beggar. It is as if he is under a spell and he thinks he is a beggar. Someone comes and tells him ‘You are a prince’ and he says ‘I am a prince? Thank you very much, but have you got a coin for me?’ He hears the word prince, but he is deeply entrenched in the beggar awareness. In the beggar awareness, whenever he gets some coins he is happy but if he loses the coins he is

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