Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/04/2020. Chapter-20."Philosopher and Administrator " : 2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #"An address given on the 22nd of October, 1975 in reply to the message of H.E. Dr. Channa Reddy, the then Governor of U.P., when he visited the Ashram." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I mentioned, it is almost impossible for the human mind to conceive what God is and, therefore, equally impossible to conceive what human duty can be in this world which is God's creation.  #"Yatra yogesvarah krishno yatra partho dhanur-dharah, tatra srir vijayo bhutir druva nitir matir mama." The message of Lor...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05/04/2020. Chapter-20."Philosopher and Administrator " : 1. An address given on the 22nd of October, 1975 in reply to the message of H.E. Dr. Channa Reddy, the then Governor of U.P., when he visited the Ashram. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The message which has been so eloquently and powerfully expressed by our honoured guest His Excellency may be regarded as perhaps the spirit behind the voice of India. It has been an awakening message not only for the reorientation that is necessary in the envisagement of spiritual values, but also in the effort to rectify any erroneous approach in the public life of man in the outer world. The message, in its quintessence, conveyed the gre...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22/02/2020. 19. To Thine Own Self Be True-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #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 ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25/01/2020. Chapter-19. To Thine Own Self Be True-5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. *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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...

====================================================================== ======================================================================= 02/01/2020. 19. To Thine Own Self Be True-4. ====================================================================== 1. How many of us can touch our hearts and confidently say that we do believe in the power of God? Do we also not believe in that which is not God? Are there not non-Gods in this world, or do you say there is only God everywhere? Is it possible for us to assert that there is no other thing in this wo rld than God? And, if a secret aspect of our psychic nature is not prepared to so openly proclaim that God only is and nothing else can be, is it true that we are also not secretly hanging on to something else which is anti-God, the non-spiritual? Or, are we in a position to declare again that there is no such thing as the unspiritual? Can religion say that even the worst evil is only a face of spirituality? We...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 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 prophe...

====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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...