Teaching seventeen was all about faith and how there are three different men who have faith in different things. Faith shows the degree of lucidity, “Men of lucidity sacrifice to the gods; men of passion, to spirits and demons; the others, men of dark inertia, sacrifice o corpses and to ghosts” Three Aspects Of Faith Pg. 131 text.4. Basically the teaching is on the different types of faith. Krishna also talks about the three types of relinquishments. There was also a very interesting part at the end of the teaching where they show the symbols and their meanings. OM TAT SAT: symbol of the infinite spirit. OM: Knowers of the infinite spirit. TAT: Men who crave freedom. SAT: Whats real and good, steadfastness in sacrifice. ASAT: charity.
The last teaching basically summed up on the most important things in the book. The drawing below pretty much sums it up.
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