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Association
Without good association, one
cannot achieve transcendental knowledge.
- BG 17:26-27 Purport -
Anyone who by good association can see three things combined
together—the body, the proprietor of the body, or individual
soul, and the friend of the individual soul—is actually in knowl-
edge. Unless one has the association of a real knower of spiritual
subjects, one cannot see these three things. - BG 13:28, purport -
A devotee is always free from all bad association.
- BG 12:18-19, purport -
A faithful person should at first have some good association to
hear of God and thus gradually become enlightened.
- BG 13:35, purport -
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