Atmeeyam : ( 22/10/2012. )

======================================================================================= 1.#Opinion: Monday, 02, December 2024, 05:30.3755. /  Philosophy: Total Thinking: 3.6.  Chapter 4: The Problem of Evil in Religious Life-1. Swami Krishnananda. Swamiji talks about the human predicament in the world and how to rise above it to Universality. =================================================================================== A crucial issue arising in religious life is the problem of evil. There is always an Ahriman before an Ahura Mazda, a Satan before a God, and a totally irreconcilable material evil before the religious seeker or the spiritual aspirant. We are troubled very much with this existence of evil, and we do not know what to do with it. We have been told, and we are prone to be convinced, that what we call evil is against religion, against what is good, and so we go with the conviction that religion is against evil, and evil is against religion. We have already tab...

=================================================================================== Sunday 01, December 2024- 07:00. Discourse: The Pure and the Impure Mind:  Sri Swami Sivananda Message from the book Lectures on Yoga and Vedanta. =================================================================================== The Sanskrit term for mind is Manas. Manas is said to be of two kinds, the pure and the impure. That which is associated with the thought of desire is the impure, while that which is without desire is the pure. The pure mind is otherwise known by the name higher mind. The impure mind is called lower mind. To men their mind alone is the cause of bondage or emancipation. That mind which is attracted by objects of sense tends to bondage, while that which is not attracted tends to emancipation. There is said to be salvation for a mind without a desire for sensual objects. An aspirant after emancipation should therefore render his mind ever free from all longing after material ...