Bhagavan Sri Krishna – The Divine Perfection : 4. Swami Krishnananda
31/01/2019 (Spoken on Sri Krishna Janmashtami, August 25, 1978) 4. This agony can be stated to be a restlessness of the spirit in ourselves. It is not a call from the body or mind merely; it is not the call of outer life merely, but a call of the total that we really are. And this totality is not confined merely to our individual personalities; there is an individual totality. For example, we are totals in ourselves, each person is complete in himself or herself, but we are satisfied with being ourselves alone. We have a social sense which keeps us being head-on into contact with other persons and things in life so that we are not satisfied with our own individuality. This is because the perfection that we are, the completeness that our individuality is, is not a real completeness. It is a segmentation of a larger perfection, as it were, to which we are obliged to move. This is why in spite of individual perfection, academic qualification to the top level, even possession of ...