Satsangam

========================================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Wednesday 27, Mar 2024. 05:30. 3480//  1. #Religion and Social Values: Post 10. - Swami Krishnananda./// ============================================================================================ Philosophy: Religion and Social Values: The Mistake of Religions: Chapter 2: The Need for a Larger Outlook-8. Post 11.  ============================================================================================== We should not say that some people are acting. People are not acting; nature is acting. As I told you, there are no people here. There is only a widespread movement of the fingers of nature. I am a finger, you are a finger, and every atom is a finger of nature. So neither this nation is doing something, nor is that nation doing anything. Neither are we doing anything, nor is anybody else doing anything. Nature is doing everything—just as neither are the fingers of our b...

============================================================================================= Wednesday, 24 Jan 2024.  05:30. Article: Philosophy: The Aim of Human Existence – Part 3/3-2 (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 21, 1980) Post-10. ============================================================================================= So, what is this karma yoga, and what does it amount to? It appears to me that the whole of the gospel of the Bhagavadgita, which is the karma yoga that we hear of, is our conscious participation in the intention of this supreme tapas of the Creator.  Karma yoga is also a kind of tapas. Any type of life which can be regarded as having an element of divinity in it has to be a form of tapas because wherever divinity is present, even in the least modicum of expression, God is present and, therefore, tapas is present. This is one aspect of the meaning of the great word tapas. The other aspect is its practical implementation in our workaday life ...