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The Philosophy of Life: 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ================================================================================================ Friday 07, March 2025, 08:15. Article Philosophy: The Philosophy of Life: Swami Krishnananda:3. Swami Krishnananda Post-3. ================================================================================================== Now, it is not only unchanging but also spiritual, as contradistinguished from the material body and the world. You may put a question to me as to how I know it is spiritual. This again can be inferred from the fact of our own consciousness within. Does anyone regard his own personality as a mass of matter? Definitely not, because we are thinking beings, capable of knowing things, and naturally we cannot imagine that a mass of matter can think. Matter is considered to be inert and dead, and matter is in the position of a known object, not a knowing subject. Therefore we are the knowers of matter, so naturally we ourselves cannot be matter. We are intelligent beings o...

The Philosophy of Life: 2. Swami Krishnananda.

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Chinmaya Mission Ahmedabad:  Ma Saraswati Puja on the blessed day of Vasant Panchami at Paramdham 🌺🌿🪷 ================================================================================================ Tuesday 04, February 2025, 05:30. Article Philosophy: The Philosophy of Life: Swami Krishnananda:2. Swami Krishnananda Post-2. ================================================================================================== Spiritual insight is nothing but the realisation of this truth that the deepest acquisitions of the human being are not merely restricted to the body and the mind, but to something profounder, deeper and wider, though not easily visible to the ordinary eyes. There is a resplendent, transcendent and universal substratum behind all our experiences, which we have forgotten on account of our confinement to the body and the limited modes of thinking, and our freedom lies in the recognition of what we are essentially. That is why the central teaching of all philosophi...