The Difference Between Right and Wrong

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The distinction between right and wrong is the knowledge of cancellation. When you see a rope as a snake, when the person realizes it's not a snake, it's a rope. This knowledge is called the correcting knowledge, badha, sub-lation. And until when this occurs, you say what you saw earlier was false and what you see now is true. The criterion of truth or falsity is if it works, it's true. If it fails to work, it's false. So there's water. I'm thirsty. I drink the water. It quenches my thirst. But do we try to buy something with it? We get arrested probably.

Adhyasa Bhashya is Adi Shankara’s introduction to the Brahma Sutras. Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a brief overview of this commentary, over three sessions. Reference material for this series: - Adhyasa Bhashya in Sanskrit: https://arshavidyacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Swamini-Svatmavidya/collateral/Adhyasa-Bhashya.pdf - Swami Gambhirananda's translation: preamble in chapter 1, section 1 of https://a.co/d/hEj8iQr - Translation of the lectures of Dr. Mani Dravid Sastri: https://sanskritdocuments.org/sites/snsastri/adhyasabhashya.pdf ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: www.vedantany.org/donate