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================================================================================================= 1.#Opinion: Thursday 06, March 2025, 07:30.3855. /  Books Philosophy: Total Thinking: 4.4.  Chapter 4: The Problem of Evil in Religious Life-4. Swami Krishnananda . Swamiji talks about the human predicament in the world and how to rise above it to university ===================================================================================================== The evil that we speak of is a seed of irreconcilability that is present in our own minds. In the famous section on creation in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, we are told that there was no 'other' to the supreme God. Brahma vā idam agra āsīt (B.U. 1.4.10). In the beginning, the One alone was, and that was the state of utter blissfulness. Then the One appeared as another to its own self. This is the story of every religion. The cosmological hymns of religions are of a common nature everywhere. If we read any scripture of any rel...

  ================================================================================================== Wednesday 05, March 2025,09:30. Discourse: Nature of Consciousness:  Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Spiritual Experiences. ========================================================================================= It is extremely difficult to define what consciousness means. Words and languages are imperfect. They cannot adequately express your thoughts and ideas. There are different kinds of consciousness. There are physical consciousness, astral consciousness, mental consciousness, supra-mental consciousness or lower Prakamya or Prajna consciousness, cosmic consciousness, superconscious-ness, subconsciousness, unconsciousness, dream consciousness, supra-cosmic consciousness, dual or double consciousness, multiple consciousness, higher Prakamya, Virat consciousness, Hiranyagarbha consciousness, Divine consciousness or Purushottama consciousness and ...