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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: Friday 01, November 2024, 05:30. 3721. /2 #The Yoga System - 1: Swami Krishnananda.//

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===================================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Friday 01, November 2024, 05:30. 3721. / Yoga & Meditation 2.#Yoga System: 2.  Chapter 1: Psychological Presuppositions - 2. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== Beyond the mind there is another faculty, called the intellect. It judges whether a thing is good or bad, necessary or unnecessary, of this kind or that, etc. It decides upon the value of an object, whether this judgment is positive or negative, moral, aesthetic or religious. One assesses one's situation in relation to the object. Some psychologists hold that the mind is an instrument in the hands of the intellect. Manas is the Sanskrit word for mind, which is regarded as the karana or instrument, while buddhi is the Sanskrit term for intellect, which is the karta or doer. The intellect judges what is cognized by the mind, and makes a decision as to the na
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HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 11 - Sri Swami Sivananda.

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=================================================================================== Thursday, 31 October 2024, 05:30.  In the Regeneration and Divinisation of Human Beings HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 15.Dattatreya Jayanthi Post-11. =================================================================================== 15.Dattatreya Jayanthi: Om Namo Bhagavate Dattatreyaya DATTATREYA Jayanthi falls during December-January on the full moon day of the month of Margaseersha. His story is told as follows. Anusuya is quoted as the model of chastity. She was the wife of Atri Maharishi, a great sage and one of the seven foremost seers and sages. She was well established in the Pativrata Dharma, the main elements of which are devotion to husband and regard of him as God Himself. She did severe austerities for a very long time in order to beget sons equal to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, the Hindu Trinity. Once, Saraswathi, Lakshmi and Parvati requested their husbands (the Trimurtis) to test the Pativr
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