The Aim of Human Existence – Post - 13: Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================================== Thursday, 01 Aug 2024. 05:30. Article: Philosophy: The Aim of Human Existence – Part 3/3 (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 21, 1980) Post-13. ============================================================================================ Spirituality arises in our hearts and springs forth as a light from within us when we recognise our aloneness in this world. Many of our artificial activities and the so-called movements and appearances are due to the existence of other people around us. We cannot be natural persons before other people. We are natural only in the bathroom or when we are alone in the bedroom; otherwise, we are always artificial. We cannot think what we want to think, we cannot speak what we want to speak, and we cannot be what we want to be. It is very difficult to live in the world. We are absolutely alone, really speaking. That we have friends and associations is an illusi