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Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!

Namaste!

Religion is One
by Sri Swami Sivananda

Children of Immortal Being!

Peace be unto all! Without peace there is no joy, and a joyless life is a valueless existence, for it is a struggle, a pain, a process of becoming a "not-itself, a self discrepancy." The reign of peace, therefore, means the freedom of life, the liberation of mankind, the salvation of all beings. All strive for peace, all want unperturbable happiness. All crave for eternal life. If we think and breathe, it is for this purpose; if the wind blows and the water wriggles, it is towards this end. Nothing changes, and nothing moves even a bit, if not to perfect itself, to become the whole and self-sufficient, to break down the barriers that limit its scope and jurisdiction of existence. The process of this kind of urge and movement in thought and act, man calls Religion.

Religion is not a dogma or a comfortable fancy or a hobby of a certain group of people. Religion is the expression of the Universal impulse to live the Divine Life, an inherent impulse which none can resist. Every person thinks differently, and yet, thinks towards the One Supreme Being. Differences are in the roads and the ladders and not in the city reached or the roof climbed over. The lower distinctions can be brought together and reconciled only in the light of the higher unity of the Truth. Man is a combination of the animal and the Divine, God and brute crossed at a point. Every individual has both these characteristics in him. The brutal propensity hurls him down to difference, misery, battle, bloodshed and death, and the Divine reality lifts him up to the rich and splendid realm of glorified and purified plentitude of the immortal Essence. Religion is the answer to the call of this higher impetus from the one Real God who is seated in the heart of the Universe as its very life itself.

Therefore, ardent religionists! Can you not account for religious wars, for poverty, for grief, for restlessness? The seed of the perpetration of evil is sown by the lack of ability to apprehend the nature of wisdom, truth and justice. It is not the human aspiration but the subhuman propensity that ravages the very values of life through contempt for alien temperament and hatred towards the other inhabitants of the earth. It is a great mistake that the boys and girls of today are spending their career in "education for a job, bread and comfort," neglecting the central realities of true civilisation and culture. It is imperative that all schools and colleges should, if they intend to work for the happiness and freedom of mankind, include as the most important item in the curriculum, the art of perfect living, of the essential values of life—virtue, love, purity, truth, universality, wisdom and justice, which constitute the very heart of religion, religion which soars high up to the possibility of cosmic salvation. There is no life in the education if it is destitute of the religious consciousness, for religion is the very meaning of life’s purpose, the one aim of the struggle for existence. If religion is rejected, there is nothing left in the mortal except a heap of bones and a mass of flesh.

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• Commentary on the Kathopanishad - Discourse 12: The Mortal Becomes Immortal

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

The Universality of Being
by Sri Swami Krishnananda

This is a series of discourses that Swamiji gave to students in the Ashram’s Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy during March and April 1996. In this course Swamiji discusses the true nature of reality—that everything, including ourselves, exists at all times and at all places; that the past, present and future are an appearance and are interchangeable; and that even the smallest particle is in all levels of existence simultaneously—and guides the student through a profound meditation technique of becoming established in that awareness, culminating in the highest state of being, the Absolute.

The reader is taken stage by stage through the levels of samadhi, and is given a practical explanation of the highest truth behind the appearance of creation, and of how understanding these facts and applying them to one’s own perception results in Self-realisation, liberation, moksha.

This is an important book for all sincere spiritual seekers, who will be benefitted greatly by it.

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VISION OF THE MASTER: A sincere seeker, who had seen the Master in a vision in his home town, reported the matter to him on his visit to the Ashram, and wanted to know whether it was real or all a hallucination.

The aspirant’s doubt had to be cleared. So the Master asked him, “You saw the vision, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” replied the visitor.

“Then?” said the Master, looking at him inquiringly, as if to ask, “then why this doubt? If you have seen it, well, it is real.”

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“The energy of the mind flows through the sense organs. We have been told again and again that we waste our strength, our energy, our potential, in sense perception. Whenever we see a thing, hear a thing or enjoy any object of sense, a proportion, a part, some measure of the energy of the mind goes outwardly in the direction of that object. The more we enjoy objects, the weaker will we become in our mind, and perhaps in our body also. Mental weakness, inability to remember things, forgetfulness, distraction, all these are characteristics of a weak mind that has exhausted itself by depleting all its energy through the sense organs.” – Swami Krishnananda

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