Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

Swami Krishnananda on pilgrimage to South India Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -1. ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship.) By Swami Krishnananda Our longings are fundamentally very deep and cannot be easily satisfied by temporary makeshift or a day-to-day adjustment of outer circumstances. Our desires are profound; our yearnings are very unintelligible to the outer atmosphere of our daily life. We seem to have a root which is deeper than what can be comprehended by our normal understanding of the world. We grow from all sides, and when we long for, or desire, or yearn, or aspire, we do so in a very comprehensive manner. This aspiration of the human being is really the soul's longing for freedom. All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately. Though they look like sensory desires, mental desires, intellectual desires, social desires, etc., they are, at the bottom, the longing of the soul of t...

Opinion 285 All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. 1. Parents should take care of their children, and not to involve in this anti National activities- 2. Good students should keep  away  from  these  indiscipline groups 3. Teachers should not take side with these bad elements, supported by political parties Sub : Immortal Values : Swami Chinmayananda Ref : Present STUDENT INDISCIPLINE  in  the universities, A JOINT OPERATION BY ALL OPPOSITION PARTIES, TO DESTABILISE THE NATION, IT IS THE TRUTH. 1. Introduction : Civilization flourishes with the promotion of culture, but when the cultural values deteriorate, the civilization of a society breaks down, as we have known from the fall of the Egyptian, the Greek and the Roman civilizations. The great religious masters of India, using their own ingenious efforts, have time and again revived the philosophical and religious values for which India stood and...