Satsangam

========================================================================= 1.#Opinion : Monday, 13 Nov 2023. 05:30. 3328.  Philosophy: Religion and Social Values The Mistake of Religions: Chapter 2: The Need for a Larger Outlook -5. Swami Krishnananda Post-8. ======================================================================= There is an insatiable hunger of the intellect and the reason to know more and more. Here again, an insatiable appetite operates within you, in the body, in the mind and in the intellect. You pursue your studies, and pursue them further and further. You go to foreign countries and pursue studies more and more, and they never end. There is something which you cannot understand even afterwards. Finally—I come to the point—there is something which keeps you in terrible insecurity of what will happen to you tomorrow, or even the next moment. “The greatest wonder in the world,” said Yudhishthira, “is that man, while he accepts the eventuality of dying, imagines ...

========================================================================= Saturday, 04 Nov 2023.  05:30. Article: Philosophy: The Aim of Human Existence – Part 2/3  (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 21, 1980) Post-7. ========================================================================= The Buddha seems to have given his final message when he was departing from this world: "Ananda, how could there be a thing compounded, made of parts, and limited in its nature unless there is something which is uncompounded, unlimited in its nature, and not finite in its structure? How could there be contingency of the performances of nature and the movements of the world if a non-contingent explanation is not there? How could there be any movement unless there is a point towards which the movement is directed?" Every movement is perhaps a direction taken by things towards an unmoved Mover or a causeless Cause, a point where every directing motion has to find its conclusion. So wit...