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#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-4.4 : Swami Krishnananda.

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#OPINION : 12/06/2020 : 2192. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-4. How is it possible for you to exist independently of anything that is outside you?  The very concept of outside or externality has to be abrogated completely, and transcended. Is it possible?  Normally, you will feel that such a thing is not possible.  How is it possible for anyone to be totally alone with nobody else existing on earth?  The idea of somebody else and something outside you is the limiting factor in which we are all involved in this world. Physically, socially, or from the point of view of natural life we cannot be absolutely alone. Aloneness is impossible in this world. Wherever you go, whatever you are, there is something outside you. There are people everywhere outside you.  There is the natural world of the five elements outside you. Space and time are there wherever you go. They are external to you. That means to say, in this world of space and ti...

#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-4.3 : Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #OPINION : 02/06/2020 : 2182. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Four are the aims of existence: dharma, artha, kama, moksha. Actually, moksha is not one item among four items; it is that which surpasses and stands above the other three. It is a logical superiority which is over and above the other empirical needs or relative requirements which are physical, emotional and ethical. On what basis and in what manner are we to conceive this foundational concept of moksha? What is it, actually? What do you mean by moksha, which is inclusive of all the other values of life? You cannot have a hundred percent freedom in this world because your freedom is restricted by the freedom ...