The Nature of the True Religious Life - 4.4. - Swami Krishnananda.

===================================================================================================== Monday 14, April 2025, 06:30. Mysticism The Nature of the True Religious Life - 4.4. Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 4: The Definition of Religion-4. ===================================================================================================== Religion proper, in a pronounced manner, manifests itself only when we begin to feel the presence of a pervasive principle which seems to be operating behind the particularities of the world, of which we are also unfortunately a part, though this pervasive principle cannot be seen with the eyes. An abstract universal seems to be controlling the concrete particulars, without an acceptance of which life seems to be unintelligible. An inference that particulars in the world cannot come together in any systematised manner, or in an intelligible way without the operation of an abstract force behind them would lead us to a deep ph...