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#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-3.11 : Swami Krishnananda

- April 26, 2020

================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 27/04/2020 : 2140. #Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 11. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Though that is an important thing, there is much more than this in kama. You require to be loved by society, the public. People in general should recognise you. #Would you like the whole society to pooh-pooh you though you are living a family life with a husband-wife relationship? Social recognition and status is also a part of the requirement of feeling and emotion, apart from a good family life. All this is included within the requirement of what is known as kama, apart from artha, or material requirement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Now, you must remember that you are permit...

#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-3.10 : Swami Krishnananda

- April 12, 2020

====================================== #TALACAUVERY TEMPLE - KARNATAKA --------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 13/04/2020 : 2126. #Chapter 3: The Vedas – the Foundation of Indian Culture - 10. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *Now, what do these Smritis tell us? #The way of conduct and behaviour and the maintenance of a general outlook of life is the subject of these Smritis. The aims of existence, the purpose of life, is the first and foremost of issues discussed in the Smritis. **What for are you existing in this world? ***What are your aims and objects? ****What is it that you are doing from morning to evening every day, and for what purpose? ##You will find that all your aims are capable of being condensed into three or four issues. Number one: you work very hard for material comforts. You want salary, you want money, you want physical sec...

At this auspicious moment, I invoke the blessings of the Almighty upon you all, that, in the words of the great Mantra called the Gayatri, we have our understandings properly directed. We have no other prayer except this, that our understandings move in the direction of Reality. We need understanding and nothing else. Understanding itself is satisfaction. Chit (Consciousness) is Ananda (Bliss). The more you understand, the more do you become happy. It is wisdom that gives you satisfaction and not material possessions. The more you know, the more do you commingle with Reality. The goal of life is wisdom of existence, the knowledge of Reality, union with the cosmos, and this is the ultimate aim of Yoga. It is not merely the ultimate aim, it is also the immediate aim. It is that which is under our very nose, just new, and the step that we have to take now is the step in the direction of Yoga. Life is Yoga.

- April 06, 2020

#OPINION : 07/04/2020 : 2120 #Humanity as Yajna or Sacrifice for Perfection - Swami Krishnananda 1. I am supposed to be here to introduce to you, under the auspices of 'The Yoga Society' of this Academy, a way of the assessment of values, which we may regard as a little removed from the usual manner of the human outlook of life, a system of living whose physical expression is the Yoga-Asanas. 2. We are here to bestow a little thought upon the impact that Yoga can have on human life as a whole and the relevance it has to the objectives of human existence. There is a need for a reorientation of the assessment of values, at least from the point of view of Yoga, and this necessity for re-orientation arises on account of the very nature of Yoga itself. Literally, or grammatically, Yoga means 'Union'. The definition or the explanation of the word does not go beyond this simple implication, 'Union is Yoga'. But union with what? And who is to be united, with what? This...