The Nature of the True Religious Life - 4.5. - Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================================== Monday 12, May 2025, 07:30. Books Mysticism The Nature of the True Religious Life - 4.5. Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 4: The Definition of Religion-5. ===================================================================================================== I mentioned the phenomenon of friendship between two persons. A loves B as a friend, and clings to B as an object of endearment. The object is imagined to be the embodiment of affection. The object is itself affection concretised in that particular form. But we know how unimaginative a person should be to think that the affection that one evinces in regard to a person is the same as the person. We have already had occasion to observe that every association is an invisible pervasive influence, and friendship is one such. It is an influence that is mutually exerted between two individuals, and the individuals themselves are not t...