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The Nature of the True Religious Life - 2.6. - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================ Friday, 08  Dec  2023. 05:30. Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 6. ================================================================ What happens to the mind when the object comes nearer and is apparently possessed? The mind ceases to think of the object. The necessity to think of the object ceases because of the satisfaction or the conviction that the object has come to one's own possession. When you cease from thinking of the object on account of the belief that you are in control of the object, the mind has returned to the self. The mind returns to the self; you come back to your own self. The not-self has come back to the self under the notion that there is no further necessity to move into the not-self. When you have entered into the self, you have touched the border of this indivisible core that you are, about which we discussed a few minutes before as a state into which we enter in deep sl...

The Nature of the True Religious Life - 2.5. - Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================== Friday, 27 Sep 2023. 05:30. Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 5. ========================================================================= Therefore, coming in contact with an object is not enough. There must be a conscious participation in the existence of that object. Again we come to the phenomenon of consciousness. You can imagine how important it is. If your consciousness cannot organically participate in the presence of the object, you will not derive any satisfaction from it. And if the object remains outside you, disconnected from you, you will not be satisfied. There should be an inward relationship between the object desired for and the subjective awareness. As experienced people in this world, you know this very well. There can be a deep dissatisfaction of a few members within the family if there is no inward relationship among them, notwithstanding the fact that one member is only a f...

The Nature of the True Religious Life - 2.4. - Swami Krishnananda.

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============================================================== Wednesday, 13 Sep 2023. 05:30. Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 2.4. ============================================================== Therrefore, we can know the importance of awareness. Our being anything would convey no meaning to us if our consciousness were not attached to it. Therefore, the greatest principle and reality of the universe is consciousness. Minus consciousness, everything is a corpse. All our possessions, all our relationships, and all our wealth and glory amount to nothing when consciousness is dissociated from it. To be a king is to be conscious that one is a king. To be rich is to be conscious that one is rich. To be anything is to be conscious that one is that thing. Minus consciousness, nothing is. Hence, the deep potentiality of the indivisibility of being, into which we are taken in the state of deep sleep, brings us an indivisible happiness. The happiness of sleep is incapable of ...