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The Philosophy of Life: 5. Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================ Thursday 21, Aug 2025, 05:20. Article Philosophy: The Philosophy of Life::5. Swami Krishnananda Post-5. ================================================================================================== So there is no meaning in thinking that religion is an otherworldly affair. Religion, perhaps in its etymological sense, is the manner in which the soul is bound back to God, and God is not an otherworldly affair. Let us not, like children, imagine that God is sitting far away in seventh heaven as if He is remote and we cannot easily reach Him. He is immanent as much as He is transcendent. He is as vast as the cosmos, yet he is inside our own hearts and watches every thought and feeling of ours. So we can realise Him here and now, in this circumstance in which we are placed, in this condition of society wherein we are born, and it is not essential to change the conditions. The conditions hav...