True Spiritual Living -4.1 -Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================================================= Friday 01, May 2026, 18:45. Books Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 4: Withdrawing from Objects of Sense - 1. Post-18. ======================================================================================================== Spiritual life is the intensive and systematic disentanglement of oneself from the clutches of unspiritual forces, all which arise from what we call the consciousness of externality. This is what is called Vritra, to whom I made reference yesterday from the Mahabharata. The consciousness of externality is the consciousness of space, time and objectivity. It is this that is harassing us every day—night and day, from birth to death. This is also called the trouble arising from sense perception, due to which we say the senses have to be controlled, and so on. The senses, their activity, the outward projection of the mind, the consc...