#Ancient Culture( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-1.3 : Swami Krishnananda
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#OPINION : 17/12/2019 : 1991.
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I mentioned that culture is basically an outlook of life. What do you think about life? You would have noticed that generally when you think, you think in three ways. First of all, you think your own self. You look within and think about yourself. Every day you think about yourself for some reason or the other, because you are very important to yourself. You cannot ignore your existence. Right from morning onwards you think of yourself.
That is the first thought. Then you think of other people. You look within at your own self, and you look without at the world outside. This without includes not only the world of nature, but also the world of people. Subjectively you think of yourself, and objectively you think of nature and history, as we may put it. By ‘history’ I mean the movement and performance of people. You look at yourself and you look at others, the others including nature as well as people outside.
Then there is a third way of thinking which generally is not a concomitant of your normal thinking. The mind gets so much occupied with one’s own self and the other people outside, due to its having to deal with the external atmosphere from one’s own point of view, that there is very little time left to think of the third item, though the third item also will come up one day or the other for insistent consideration, especially when you are totally dissatisfied both with your own way of living and the way in which people outside live. You are somehow or other not satisfied. There is something wrong somewhere. Something is wrong with you and something is wrong with other people also. The world itself does not seem to be satisfying.
As long as you feel there is some point in being satisfied with the conditions prevailing in the world, the third outlook will not arise in your mind. Why should there be any necessity to think of a third thing when you are perfectly all right, there is nothing wrong with you, and people in the world are also perfectly all right? They are all getting on well. What is wrong with them? The world is fine. If this is so, you will have only two ways of thinking: the within and the without, the subject and the object, as they are called philosophically. The subjective side and the objective side constitute the whole of human thought. But there is something which is neither a subject nor an object, which will speak in its own language one day or the other when neither the subjective side nor the objective side is going to satisfy.
To be continued ...
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IN The history of Bharatiya Samskaram we find even in the Rig Veda, the oldest of scriptures, the Indian mind experiencing the intimation of something divine and immortal within itself. The inward search of man gathers volume and power in the Upanishads. The Upanishads seek to realize the transcendental dimension of man-the dimension of Divinity transcending humanity.
In this spiritual direction human awareness goes beyond the body, the sense and the surrounding world : man realizes himself as the immortal Self. Coming in the wake of the Upanishads, the Srimad Bhagavad Gita works out a complete philosophy of life, reconciling the sacred and the secular, work and worship.
The spirituality that proceeds from the Vedas and the Upanishads, and reinforced by Sri Krishna,
Ancient Rishi-s, Great Acharya-s Swami Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Madhvacharya and many others, is glorified into universality by Acharya like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Sivananda, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Krishnananda, Swami Chidananda, Swami Tejomayananda and so on. They introduced religion with the power to illumine and guide humanity as a whole.
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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#OPINION : 17/12/2019 : 1991.
Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) -3.
=======================================================================I mentioned that culture is basically an outlook of life. What do you think about life? You would have noticed that generally when you think, you think in three ways. First of all, you think your own self. You look within and think about yourself. Every day you think about yourself for some reason or the other, because you are very important to yourself. You cannot ignore your existence. Right from morning onwards you think of yourself.
That is the first thought. Then you think of other people. You look within at your own self, and you look without at the world outside. This without includes not only the world of nature, but also the world of people. Subjectively you think of yourself, and objectively you think of nature and history, as we may put it. By ‘history’ I mean the movement and performance of people. You look at yourself and you look at others, the others including nature as well as people outside.
Then there is a third way of thinking which generally is not a concomitant of your normal thinking. The mind gets so much occupied with one’s own self and the other people outside, due to its having to deal with the external atmosphere from one’s own point of view, that there is very little time left to think of the third item, though the third item also will come up one day or the other for insistent consideration, especially when you are totally dissatisfied both with your own way of living and the way in which people outside live. You are somehow or other not satisfied. There is something wrong somewhere. Something is wrong with you and something is wrong with other people also. The world itself does not seem to be satisfying.
As long as you feel there is some point in being satisfied with the conditions prevailing in the world, the third outlook will not arise in your mind. Why should there be any necessity to think of a third thing when you are perfectly all right, there is nothing wrong with you, and people in the world are also perfectly all right? They are all getting on well. What is wrong with them? The world is fine. If this is so, you will have only two ways of thinking: the within and the without, the subject and the object, as they are called philosophically. The subjective side and the objective side constitute the whole of human thought. But there is something which is neither a subject nor an object, which will speak in its own language one day or the other when neither the subjective side nor the objective side is going to satisfy.
To be continued ...
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NOTE :
In this spiritual direction human awareness goes beyond the body, the sense and the surrounding world : man realizes himself as the immortal Self. Coming in the wake of the Upanishads, the Srimad Bhagavad Gita works out a complete philosophy of life, reconciling the sacred and the secular, work and worship.
The spirituality that proceeds from the Vedas and the Upanishads, and reinforced by Sri Krishna,
Ancient Rishi-s, Great Acharya-s Swami Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Madhvacharya and many others, is glorified into universality by Acharya like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Sivananda, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Krishnananda, Swami Chidananda, Swami Tejomayananda and so on. They introduced religion with the power to illumine and guide humanity as a whole.
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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