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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...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #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 ...

=============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 15/05/2020 : 2161. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *We noticed the purpose of the Smritis. What do the Smritis tell us? *They lay down the laws of life. What are the laws of life? #These laws depend on the laws of existence itself. Our existence is summed up in our longings or aspirations, and our longings or aspirations are summed up in the fourfold aim of existence, which is what we noticed yesterday: artha, kama and dharma. ##The material values of life sum up our physical requirements or physical needs, and our emotional needs are summed up by kama, the regulation of the way in which we have to fulfil our desires for material comfort and emotional satisfaction i...

============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 09/05/2020 : 2153. SRI GAUDAPADACHARYA PARAMA GURU OF SRI ADI SANKARACHARYA #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #We bestowed sufficient thought on the foundations of Indian culture, which are the Vedas. By observing also that the Vedas are not merely a scripture of religion in the sense of an aspiration for a god above the world, we had occasion to go into the different aspects of the meaning of the Veda Samhitas.  ##They are inclusive of at least five aspects of life. It is religion, of course, because the mantras of the Vedas are addressed to gods or divinities above the physical world. But the Veda mantras are also connected with this world, not merely with the oth...

================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #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...

====================================== #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...

#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...