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  =========================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Monday, 11, 2024. Mar 05:30. 3461. //  1.#Total Thinking: 3.2. Swami Krishnananda./// ============================================================================= Philosophy: Chapter 3: The Pursuit of a Hidden Mystery-2 Swamiji talks about the human predicament in the world and how to rise above it to Universality. ============================================================================ The process of the history of mankind is the process of the working of this miracle behind human history, but it eludes our grasp, escapes our understanding and defies our every effort to know it. While we can know anything and everything, we cannot know that thing, which is the only thing that is finally to be known. Therefore, we are the fools that we are. But this realm of experience looks like paradise to us on account of the presence of this mystery. At the same time, we are made fools, so we are literal

============================================================================================ Sunday 10,  Mar 2024 05:30  Chapter-14. EPILOGUE: 3.Education And Nation-Building Post-26. ============================================================================ A Powerful Aid to Concentration: There is a mysterious power or indescribable Sakti in the Linga to induce concentration of the mind. Just as the mind is focussed easily in crystal gazing, so also the mind attains one-pointedness when it looks at the Linga. That is the reason why the ancient Rishis of India and the seers have prescribed Linga for being installed in the temples of Lord Siva. Linga Represents the Formless Siva: Siva-Linga speaks to you in unmistakable language of silence: “I am one without a second. I am formless.” Pure, pious souls only can understand this language. A curious, passionate, impure foreigner of little understanding or intelligence says sarcastically: “Oh! The Hindus worship the phallus or sex-organ.