Grahasthasramam : ( 24/05/2013. )

  ===================================================================================================== Friday 07, February 2025, 05:30. Mysticism The Nature of the True Religious Life - 4.2.   Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 4: The Definition of Religion-2. =============================================================================== It is possible that religion is of this kind. It may perhaps belong to a category to which we also belong. We do not seem to belong to the objects of the world, but today we have converted ourselves into objects. This is the reason why we cannot see religion with our eyes. We see only objects. The reason is that we are also objects. Man has lost his subjectivity; and in a world of mechanistic associations, he has become one nut and bolt in the machine of life, and has finally landed himself in the predicament of a factory worker so that everything he does in life may be regarded as a sort of mechanical action in the large factory of life. And ...

  ========================================================================================================= Monday 13, January 2025, 10:30. Mysticism The Nature of the True Religious Life - 4.1.   Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 4: The Definition of Religion-1. ===================================================================================== When we look around in all directions, we see things, objects, plants and trees, animals and men, but we do not see religion anywhere. We are not able to recognise the presence of religion anywhere in the world. We see only people moving about doing something, and we see animals, plants, things, and all their subdivisions, but not the thing called “religion”. We may be under the impression that we see religion in temples, churches and holy places of pilgrimage, but what do we see there other than buildings and people, books and decorated objects? Do we see religion? We see the same things inside the holy of holies that we see in a sho...