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