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======================================================================================= 1.#Opinion: Thursday, 18, September 2024, 05:30.3673. /  1.#Total Thinking: 3.5. Swami Krishnananda. Philosophy: Chapter 3: The Pursuit of a Hidden Mystery-6. Swamiji talks about the human predicament in the world and how to rise above it to Universality. ========================================================================================== Karma yoga is a spiritualised activity, no doubt, but we must know what it actually means. It is the discovery of that outlook which is compatible with the presence of this universal Self in the activities of our daily life. It is a difficult thing to understand, and even more difficult to practise. We wool-gather, we sleep, we slip off track, and we are once again the old people that we were in spite of our effort because, as I told you, the spirit always eludes the grasp of empirical understanding and, much worse, the perceptions of the senses.  Kshurasya d

=================================================================================== Wednesday 18, September 2024, 05:30. Discourse, The Dynamics of Selfless Service:  Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Ethics of the Bhagavad Gita. =================================================================================== Before proceeding to consider the bearing that the Ethics of the Bhagavad Gita has upon the various aspects of human conduct, it is important to emphasise that the cosmic love that forms the fundamental basis of these ethics is not an ideal to be fondly meditated upon, nor an idol to be bowed to from a distance, nor even an idler’s subject-for-gossip. Cosmic love is a very, very hard taskmaster. No doubt it is elixir for the inner spirit, a tonic for life itself and a fountain of eternal youthfulness and dynamism; but it has often demanded and inflicted a heavy toll on the physical, grosser and material part of man. Cosmic love is the confluence of par