The Destiny of Man-14.

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And all the great systems of religious thoughts have at their origin this divine freedom, this divine insight, this wisdom. All the great prophets, be it Mohammed, be it Jesus the Christ, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, be it anyone, they came with this knowledge of man’s destiny.

They called man back to his original state, to perfection and freedom. "Be ye also perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect."

In this way Jesus called man back to his supreme destiny.

Every prophet said the same thing.

You are not what you are now.

This is a fallen state.

Yours is the state of immaculate purity, and this birth of yours as a human being with feeling, thinking, reasoning is a chance given to you to ponder your own life and once again regain this lost state of divinity.

Paradise lost is the state of man—paradise regained is the fate of man.


All the great religions came into being to show man the other half of the cycle.

You are now in one half of the circle. Y

ou have been born into this state of identification with the gross physical body which is perishable, which is subject to so many imperfections, change, disease, old age, infirmities and one day it has to pass.

Now you are involved with that which is not your real identity, your real Self—it is non-self. It is something which is part of created phenomena, whereas you are an uncreated principle, eternal, beginningless, timeless, for you are one with the cosmic principle.

SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued .........


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