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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 2 - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================ Saturday 07, February 2026, 06:55. A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India - 2. Chapter 1: The Vedas:1 Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================================= Chapter 1: The Vedas:1 1.The Vedas and Their Classification: It is customary for historians of the philosophy and religion of India to commence their studies with the Rig-Veda, which is regarded as the earliest sacred text of ancient Indian culture. A study of the Vedas forms generally the beginning of an advanced learning in the philosophical and religious literature of India. The Rig-Veda is a book of metrical hymns and is divided into ten parts called Mandalas. Another division of the book is into eight sections called Ashtakas. The hymns of the Rig-Veda, called mantras, are powerfully constructed poems, with an amazing power of rhythm, spontaneity a...
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Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  =================================================================================================== Thursday 05, February 2026, 07:00. Article Scriptures  Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on February 24th, 1973). ==================================================================================================== Here is the distinction among these knowledges. The lowest type of knowledge is tamasic which sees only individuals, each by itself and for itself. The higher knowledge, which is rajasic, is the mutual relationship among things: I am concerned with you, and you are concerned with me. This is a socialistic type of knowledge, to which we have risen today, but we have not yet risen to the higher type of knowledge which is sattvic. The fundamental basic unity of things has not yet been perceived. The jungle type of living follows the law of the fish, as they call it, the larger one swallowing the smaller one. Though today ...
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The Principles of the Bhagavadgita: 2. ( END ) - Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================================== Tuesday 03, February 2026, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Principles of the Bhagavadgita: 2.  Swami Krishnananda. ==================================================================================================== In the second chapter, the Gita tells us that this fear can be conquered through a guide or a spiritual teacher. The spiritual path is very difficult to tread without a proper guide, and this proper guide cannot be had by study of books either, because you need the guidance of a person who has already walked the path. This chapter introduces us to the great Yoga which the Master of Yoga, Sri Krisna, imparts. Here the Master tells us that all our efforts should be based on knowledge. Action without knowledge will not succeed, for what succeeds is not the activity, but the knowledge that directs the activity. As a matter of fact, the whole gospel of the Gita is nothing but th...
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Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita - 8. Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================== Sunday 01, February 2026, 07:25. Article Scriptures Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita - 8.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 24th, 1973) Post-8. ==================================================================================================== Impersonal love for God is unthinkable, but that is spirituality: “Heaven or hell, good or bad, pain or pleasure, God is my goal.” If this attitude is implanted in our hearts, we can be said to be real spiritual heroes. God does not come to us always in the form of satisfaction and pleasure of the senses and the body. It is not that God will always make us a prime minister. God may make us a beggar, because there is no connection whatsoever between divine justice and the human concept of good and satisfaction. To be spiritual is to be impersonal to some extent, and this understanding is superior to the calculative underst...
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The Heritage of Indian Culture: 1.2 -Swami Krishnananda.

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=========================================================================================================== Thursday 29, January 2025, 20:45.  Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Heritage of Indian Culture - 2.   1.The Vision of India - 2. Swami Krishnananda. Post-2 ============================================================================================= India also had its own culture, and it has its culture even today. It has been a surprise to many students of history that how, under the vicissitudes of time and the onslaughts of inimical forces, India's culture should still be able to show its head above the surface of the Earth, and not be buried under the debris of the ground as other cultures met their fate. A great student of India's culture was Sri Aurobindo, and we had many other stalwarts of this type, who opined that if India is alive today in consonance with the basic requirements of its own ancient culture, it is because of the spirituality of its outlo...
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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ============================================================================================== Tuesday 27, January 2026, 20:50. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.2. 1.Introduction-2 Swami Krishnananda. post-2. ================================================================================================= The Yoga-Vasishtha rises to a high watermark in the philosophic thought of India. It is a classic inimitable in its kind. Through elaborate descriptions, almost in an epic style, it works upon the fundamental principles enunciated in the Upanishads and combines philosophy with a lofty psychology by which it explains creation, evolution and involution purely from a spiritualistic point of view. In this way, it tries to give an ultimate explanation of everything in terms of the Infinite consciousness which manifests itself as the objects of experience on one side and the experiencing subjects on the other side. The ...
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JIVANMUKTI VIVEKA: Part 1: Post-7. Swami Guru Bhaktananda.

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================================================================================================= Sunday 25, January 2026. 06:00. JIVANMUKTI VIVEKA:  Part 1:  Pramana Prakarana:  “The Evidence of Liberation”:  IN 5 PARTS:  THE ENQUIRY INTO LIBERATION  2. THE “BAHUDAKA” SANNYASIN: REFLECTIONS: Swami Gurubhaktananda.  ================================================================================================== 2. THE “BAHUDAKA” SANNYASIN: 5 If the person is Shaktah, able-bodied, and has a very good physique and is capable of taking much physical strain, then the settled life described above may not befit him. He may opt for a more active life of being a wandering Sannyasi known as Bahudaka. If he is healthy and has an adventurous temperament, he may go constantly on pilgrimage from one place to another, most probably on foot in Sri Vidyaranyaji’s times. It would be like the life led by the ‘backpackers’ of today, except that it would be quite auster...
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