Religion and Social Values - 1-1. Swami Krishnananda
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 27, 2020. Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World -1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. During this period of Sadhana Week, it is obviously your intention to gather a new strength into your own selves and return home as a rejuvenated personality, and not as a person who has attended a festival, a mela or a rejoicing—after which, generally, your energies are depleted. You go as a weakened person after a dramatic performance or a presentation which stimulates your vitals, stirs up your emotions, and agitates the cells of your body. Sadhana Week is not a dramatic performance. It is not an enactment by performers on a stage, and it is not your function to witness the presentations as if they are performances in a theatre. 2. You have come with a different purpose, with personal difficulties wh