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The Essence of Dharma-10.

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04/11/2017 Spoken on February 11th, 1973) 10. We generally have a give-and-take attitude. When you perform an action, put a question to yourself: “What will it bring to me? Why should I do it?” This is a question which always comes up in one’s mind whenever one is asked to do anything. The action must produce a result, which means to say we are always accustomed to perform actions with an ulterior end or motive, and never in the spirit of karma yoga. Karma yoga is action which is an end in itself because it is spirit manifesting itself. The spirit is an end, and not a means. Now I am slowly coming to the point as to why spirituality is connected with universality. If the universe is the determining factor of every conduct and action of an individual, the individual being a part of the universe, and it being clear at the same time that the fact of the individual’s bearing a relevance to cosmic existence also implies the universal determining action, then the nature of the uni...
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1.#Opinion: Wednesday 16, April 2025, 05:30. 3901. / 2 #The Yoga System - 4&5-1.. Swami Krishnananda.//

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======================================================================================= 1.#Opinion: Wednesday 16, April 2025, 05:30. 3901. / 2 #The Yoga System - 4&5:   Chapter 4: Depth Psychology: Chapter 5: The Moral Restraints -1. Swami Krishnananda.// ====================================================================================== Chapter 4: Depth Psychology: Avidya represents a condition in which one forgets reality and is unconscious of its existence. We have somehow forgotten the real nature of our selves, viz. the universality of our true being. This is the primary function of ignorance. But it has more serious consequences. For it also makes one mistake the non-eternal (anitya) for the eternal (nitya), the impure (asuchi) for the pure (suchi), pain (duhkha) for pleasure (sukha) and the not-Self (anatman) for the Self (atman). It is obvious that the world with its contents is transient, and yet it is hugged as a real entity. Even the so-called solidity or sub...
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HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 14 - Sri Swami Sivananda.

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====================================================================================== Tuesday 15, April 2025, 07:45. In the Regeneration and Divinisation of Human Beings HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 14 - Sri Swami Sivananda. 18. Hanuman Jayanti Post-14. =================================================================================== Hanuman Jayanti: Yatra yatra raghunatha kirtanam; Tatra tatra kritha masthakanjalim; Bhaspavaari paripurna lochanam; Maarutim namata raakshasanthakam MEANING: “We bow to Maruti, Sri Hanuman, who stands with his palms folded above his forehead, with a torrent of tears flowing down his eyes wherever the Names of Lord Rama are sung”. SRI HANUMAN is worshipped all over India–either alone or together with Sri Rama. Every temple of Sri Rama has the murti or idol of Sri Hanuman. Hanuman is the Avatara of Lord Shiva. He was born of the Wind-God and Anjani Devi. His other names are Pavanasuta, Marutsuta, Pavankumar, Bajrangabali and Mahavira. LORD HANUMAN Om Sri...
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