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1.#Opinion : Tuesday 11, June 2024. 05:30. 3566 /1. #Religion and Social Values:12 Swami Krishnananda

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  ================================================================================= 1.#Opinion : Tuesday 11, June 2024. 05:30. 3566.  1. #Religion and Social Values: 11. Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================= Philosophy: Religion and Social Values: The Mistake of Religions: Chapter 2: The Need for a Larger Outlook-9. Post 12.  ================================================================================= “Yoga is union” has often been repeated, again and again, by teachers and masters—but, union with what? You suddenly say, “Union with God; union with the Atman.” This is your glib reply. This reply will not be sufficient unless it is properly interpreted and understood. It is union with Reality. And if you think God is the only reality, the Reality, and yoga is an attempt at union with that Reality, we grant this definition as perfectly valid. But the weakness of man insinuates itself even into this definition of the conc

The Aim of Human Existence – Post - 12: Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================ Monday, 10 June 2024.  05:30. Article: Philosophy: The Aim of Human Existence – Part 3/3 (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 21, 1980) Post-12. ================================================================================ We are today at the closing session of a conference which has been organised to create a wave of spirituality in the world. It has no other intention, and it should not have any other intention. This wave of spirituality, this God-consciousness, can be spread in the world only if it can be generated within ourselves, first and foremost. Unless we are powerhouses in ourselves, we cannot conduct electricity to others. It is essential, therefore, for every one of us seated here or everyone who is associated with this organisation and conference to gird up one's loins to be honestly and sincerely fixed in one's attention towards the achievement of this purpose of, first of al