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• Introduction
• 1: The Existence of God
• 2: The Search for the Absolute Truth
  • The Methods of Attaining Knowledge
  • The Four Defects of the Conditioned Soul
• 3: "You Are Not The Material Body"
  • The Soul
  • Sanatana-dharma
• 4: Faith
• 5: The Three Aspects of the Absolute Truth
• 6: Krishna: The Supreme Absolute Truth
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• 7: The Three Energies of the Lord
  • Maya (Illusion)
• 8: The Creation
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• 9: Perceiving Krishna in His Creation
• 10: The Three Modes of Material Nature
  • The Law of Karma
  • Destiny and Free Will
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• 11: Death
  • Liberation

2.2: The Four Defects of the Conditioned Soul

1. Imperfect Senses (Karanapatava): The senses are limited and can easily be misled.
2. Illusion (Pramada): Accepting as real something that is not real.
3. Mistakes (Bhrama): "To err is human."
4. Cheating (Vipralipsa): To propagate falsehood, to present yourself as something you are not.

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