Religion and Social Values - 1-3. Swami Krishnananda.
Monday, December 28, 2020. 08 : 04. AM. Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World -3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a very peculiar attitude that we develop towards our own selves which can be very safely defined by a single word: duplicity. We do not maintain a true relationship with our own selves. At the very outset, we manage to be untrue to our own selves in order that we may live in an untrue relationship with people. It is sometimes felt that in order to justify one falsehood, another falsehood may have to be heaped over it. A single falsehood does not stand on its own legs. We are acutely aware of something peculiar in our own selves which cannot stand the logic of nature or, perhaps, the will of God; and with this circumstance, we have to live in this world. We have been forced to accept that we somehow have to live in this world. We do not ask people, “Is it necessary for me to live in this world