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google image insertion failed the editor not fully functional. ==================================================================================== Saturday, 16. Mar 2024. 05:30. Mysticism Chapter 3: The Foundation of Religious Philosophy-2. ==================================================================================== Now, this would also imply, by way of suggestion, that Reality has degrees. How does it follow? It follows from the fact that every individual in the world cannot have a uniform consciousness, or awareness, of the purpose of life. It is true that everything has a purpose, and every person has an aim in view behind every kind of movement, activity or intention, but this purpose is not uniform in the intensity of its manifestation or the dimension of its comprehension. I have an aim in what I do, and you have an aim in what you do. It is very clear. If even an ant is crawling on the floor, it moves in a direction with a purpose. If the wind blows and it rains, and th...

=============================================================== Saturday, 17.  Feb  2023. 05:30. Mysticism Chapter 3: The Foundation of Religious Philosophy-1. =============================================================== The foundations of religion lie deep in the awareness of the relation that subsists among the primary principles of God, the world and the individual. A study of these ultimate truths often goes by the name of philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, theology, etc. God, the world and the individual—these sum up the principle scaffolding structure of every kind of study or any branch of learning, for the matter of that. All social relations that give rise to studies which are usually called humanities also come under the relationships already mentioned, namely, the mutual relation of individuals. During the previous session I brought your mind to a point where it could concentrate upon the possible character of the Ultimate Reality. What is meant by Reality? What ...

  ============================================================== Monday, 15  Jan  2023. 05:30. Mysticism Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 7. =============================================================== How could you be free by knowing your own self? You can have some idea as to how this could be. Knowing your own self is not knowing yourself as so-and-so. You have already understood to some extent that you are not any of these things—neither a man nor a woman, not even a body, not even a mind, not even a human being. Therefore, to know your own self would be to enter into the impersonal quintessence of your being, which is also the quintessential essence of everything else. When you sink below the surface of a wave in the ocean, you have touched the ocean, which is the root of all the other waves at the same time. So is the case when you go deep into your own self; you have touched the depths of everybody in the world. So to know yourself is to know ...