1 ## Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of India (Bharatham) 50:
================================================================================================== Thursday 13 Aug 2026, 20:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism: India: Ancient Culture: 1 ## Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of India (Bharatham) 50: Chapter 13: True Spiritual Devotion to God -1. Swami Krishnananda. Post-50. ===================================================================================================== Chapter 13: True Spiritual Devotion to God - 1. Religion is an approach to God. When this inner endeavour of the soul of man girds up its loins, as it were, to contact God, that practice comes to be known as yoga. Yoga is the union with Reality. Inasmuch as in our deliberations we have noticed that there are degrees of reality—stages of the approach of human consciousness to Reality as such—the practice of yoga also becomes a graduated series. It is not a sudden, abrupt jump from one level to another. The movement of nature through the process of evolution h...