Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals : 19-6. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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22/02/2020.

19. To Thine Own Self Be True-6.

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#Very unfortunately, I have been placing only problems before the minds of people here. But unless we know what the diseases are, we cannot find a remedy. 

##To diagnose deeply the depths of the illness of man, is not an unnecessary adventure. It is the purpose of a medical man. And we should not give a pill of religion and think that the malady is over. The pill-religion will not work and it has not worked. We cannot swallow one tablet and think that God has come. It is a serious question before mankind as a whole. 

###And we are happy at this hour that serious thinkers in this direction are gathered here to muster in forces of God, I should say, not merely social forces, because God alone can solve the problems of life. No man can succeed in this superhuman difficulty. God alone can save us. Man cannot save us. Arms, ammunition, police and army are no help to us when we are in danger, because these are all human forces and contrivances. If we have any friend, it is God. If we have any support, it is God. And if there is anyone who can teach us or give a lesson, it is God. If our questions can be answered, God alone can answer them. 

####A human friend cannot be competent to answer these questions. So, a secret surrender of the human spirit to the Almighty Presence is the vital need of the hour, as I can think at this moment. We are afraid. We are afraid of everything today. Even the movement of a dry leaf frightens us. We do not know what it is aiming at. Fear is around us. We cannot sleep one peaceful night. And, guns and swords cannot help us here. It is the Spirit of God that can save us, and the implementation of the Spirit of God in our daily behaviour may be regarded as religion. 

I do not know what you call it – Christianity,  Islam or Zen, all man made religions and spread by force or swords.

 I do not know what name you would like to give it. I conclude with these few words that it is high time not to slumber or wool gather or imagine that milk and honey flow in this world. It cannot flow always. It is high time that we are honest to the true God. 

#####When our deepest spirit, the basic being of ours is en rapport with the Being of the cosmos, perhaps the millennium, Rama Rajya or the Golden Age of Kritayuga descends. God reigning the world is not an impossibility. This is my humble conviction.

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