Satsangam

  ================================================================ 1.#Opinion : Thursday, 28  Sep  2023. 05:30. 3277.  Phylosophy : Religion and Social Values The Mistake of Religions : Chapter 2: The Need for a Larger Outlook -4. Swami Krishnananda Post-7. ================================================================ Chapter 2: The Need for a Larger Outlook -4. Is it not essential on our part to discover the causes of our failure? Or, are we to attribute it to God's unkindness and the idiocy of the public around us? Our earlier analysis pointed out to some extent that our suffering is not due to the wickedness of other people, even though there may be untoward persons in the world. It is also unkind to call God unkind. An unkind God would not have planted in us an aspiration for kindness. An evil God who is bereft of the sense of goodness cannot enshrine the sense of goodness in our mind. How could the idea of goodness, rectitude and propriety arise in our mind if such a thing

  ================================================================ Tuesday,  19  Sep,  2023.  09:30. Philosophy : The Aim of Human Existence – Part 2/3 -2 (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 21, 1980) Post-6. ================================================================ The notion of God will be accepted to be a simple notion and, therefore, we need not acquiesce in the attribution of any reality or existence to this idea or notion of the existence of God or perfection. Accepted. But the refusal to accept the presence of any reality or the element of existence in the idea or notion of God is an idea which will not again agree that it also should be identified with a mere idea minus existence. This is a very great subtle point that is hidden behind the workings of our minds. A denial of a thing does not wish to be denied itself. If that denial is denied, its value goes, and it ceases to be a denial. So the idea that the idea of God cannot be equated with existence cannot be an