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