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Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals : 19-3. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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======================================================================== ======================================================================== 27/11/2019. 19. To Thine Own Self Be True-3. ======================================================================== Many religions, rightly or wrongly, knowingly or unknowingly, have given the impression that they are teaching an otherworldly gospel, which has roused the wrath of many socially-oriented thinkers who do not feel that the world of nature is an unreality to the extent that it demands a religious abnegation. I do not think that the very Sankalpam  of religion, whether it is a Sri Raman or Sri Krishna or Mahadevan or devi sankalpam , were responsible for creating this difficulty in our religious thinking. Most followers, whether of the gospel of Krishna or ...., seem to be expressing the weakness that is characteristic of human nature and demonstrating that they cannot be up to the mark or the level of the prophet. W

Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals : 19-2. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 08/11/2019. 19. To Thine Own Self Be True-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now, we come to an interesting sidelight of this matter when we try to go a little deeper into this question of religion. Has religion failed, as some people would tell us today? Is religion being threatened, as we often hear it said in many quarters? May I confidently say that religion has not failed and it cannot fail. It cannot also be threatened. Because, if you would agree with me that religion is an outlook of consciousness, and not a coming together of social units for an empirical purpose, no one can threaten religion, because no one can threaten consciousness. One's social, physical and political ex