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Raja-Yoga - Chapter-1 - Introductory -2. - Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893

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  ---------------------------------------------- Friday, March 26, 2021. 08:00. AM. ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTORY-2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The science of Râja-Yoga proposes to put before humanity a practical and scientifically worked out method of reaching this truth. In the first place, every science must have its own method of investigation. If you want to become an astronomer and sit down and cry "Astronomy! Astronomy!" it will never come to you. The same with chemistry. A certain method must be followed. You must go to a laboratory, take different substances, mix them up, compound them, experiment with them, and out of that will come a knowledge of chemistry. If you want to be an astronomer, you must go to an observatory, take a telescope, study the stars and planet...

Religion and Social Values - 1-5. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, March 26, 2021. 07:17. AM. Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World -5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The personal and social conditions of life take much of our time. Do you not believe that the large part of the day is taken up by your social engagements and personal needs? Are you not convinced that you have very little time to devote to what you call religion, or the path of the spirit? Do you not have a perpetual complaint that you cannot afford to find time for religious pursuits or to live a spiritual life, inasmuch as you have other engagements—the calls of life which are pressing in their nature? Do you not also believe that these pressing circumstances which pull your attention in their direction are very important for you? Be very, very honest and dispassionate in this analysis. Do not misguide yoursel...