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The Aim of Human Existence – 1.5. Swami Krishnananda

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----------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 01,2020.8:02.AM.  (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-5.  ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, questions lead to further questions and we are not anywhere near the final answer, evidently. The incapacity of the resources of man to find an answer to the problems of life is the fear in us, fear in everybody; and what can be a greater fear than this? We have a great question before us, and we are unable to receive an answer. Not I, not you, not anyone in the world can give an answer to this question that the whole of the world has raised before itself, a large question of the nature of existence: Why should anything be what it is? Why should there be a tree, why should there be a mountain, why should there be a man, why should there be a river? Why should there be anything as it is? We cannot answer these questions unless we are in a p