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Audio Downloads of Daily Discussions on Karmayogi's Commentaries on Pride and Prejudice

  1. Volume 2 Chapter 13

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    2009-05-20
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth is struggling to dismiss what Darcy says about Wickham as false
    Principles: 
    In half a minute the letter was unfolded again - Receiving a considerable sum of £ 3000, again she hesitated
    Topics discussed: 
    Infatuation, knowledge of human nature, infatuation, selfless love and romance, finite, infinite and infinitesimal, ego, mind, soul, psychic being, freedom, discretion in speech, truth, ananda, love, joy of triumphing
    Questions raised: 

    How can Charlotte see Darcy’s feelings for Elizabeth, but Elizabeth herself cannot see?

  2. Volume 2 Chapter 13

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    2009-05-19
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth cannot accept what Darcy says about Wickham
    Principles: 
    This must be the grossest falsehood - Scarcely knowing what it says, she hastily put it away
    Topics discussed: 
    Truth and falsehood, Indian independence, initiative, sanction, energy and its movement, resentment, romance, lack of human response
    Questions raised: 

    How can we know if our work is sanctioned?
    How does energy that is released move?

  3. Volume 2 Chapter 13

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    2009-05-18
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth is angry, shocked and confused by what Darcy has written
    Principles: 
    The worst objections to the match made her too angry - Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror oppressed her
    Topics discussed: 
    Becoming a willing victim, expecting an apology, individuality, universality, anger, disturbance, correspondences, awareness of one’s defects, gratitude, cause and effect, understanding, open mind, human choice

  4. Volume 2 Chapter 13

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    2009-05-17
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth is at first angry and disturbed by Darcy's letter
    Principles: 
    Was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes – His belief of her sister’s inability, she instantly resolved to be false
    Topics discussed: 
    Mind, mental experience, maturity, caution, alertness, cunning, intelligence, eagerness, analysis of the mind of each character in the story, human personality, energy and strength, instant resolution, instability, falsehood, attitude, opinion, there is a truth in everything that comes to us, inverse reflection

  5. Volume 2 Chapter 13

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    2009-05-16
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth has just finished reading Darcy’s letter at Hunsford
    Principles: 
    What a contrariety of emotion they excited - She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension
    Topics discussed: 
    Urge, sensation, emotion self-awareness, knowledge confusion, clarity, expectation and aspiration, energy, character
    Questions raised: 

    Why doesn’t Collins react the way Darcy reacts to refusal and failure?
    What happens when we see the other man’s point of view?
    How can expectation be converted to aspiration? How is energy released?



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