TRUE EDUCATION : 11. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020. 07:51.AM.

(Keynote address given at a conference on e

Location in Delhi on October 21, 1983)

Post-11.

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But there is a security already within us which defies this sense of insecurity posed by this problem of not being sure of anything in this world. The very hopes of mankind for a better future, notwithstanding the fact of the transiency of all things, is the proof of the immortality of the soul of man and the deathlessness of human values. The deathlessness of human values would mean the deathlessness of eternal values.

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Here I have only set up certain questions, problems to shakeup our own personality from the complacency that we may be entertaining in a state of ignorance, not knowing that our highest knowledge is the worst of ignorance, finally speaking. We know nothing of the facts of nature or the truths of life, and perhaps the time has come to respect these deeper truths of life, to be obedient to the laws of nature and to be humbly subservient to that eternal Regulator of all values of life which, with its infinite eyes, knows all things, and whose existence no one can deny.

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I have the great joy at this moment to invoke upon not only upon all of you seated here but upon all the brothers and sisters of this country, upon mankind as a whole, the infinite abundance and grace of that infinite meaning that is embedded in the least of things in this world, and the blessings of all the Masters.

End.

Next - Education is a Process of Enlightenment - Swami Krishnananda

To be continued ....

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