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The Aim of Human Existence – 1.4. Swami Krishnananda

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=========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 25, 2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 3. Post-1- 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. We were told by some of our speakers of the dread that is before us from the future world, the possibility of the utter annihilation of even the particles of sand. But who injects this fear into our bodies? The dread itself cannot be the answer to this question. The source of fear cannot be equated with the complexion of the sources of fear. We fear death because we are immortal. That is the final answer. It is the great proof of the immortality of what we essentially are. The fear of death demonstrates the immortality of the soul of things. Otherwise, we will not fear death. If death is our nature we cannot be afraid of death, because nature cannot be afraid of its own...

The Aim of Human Existence – 1.3. Swami Krishnananda

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=================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 10, 2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 3. Post-1- 3 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. In this predicament, no sense can be there in asking a question what the aim of existence is – because there is no existence. There seems to be only the parading of the drama of non-existence. We are living non-existence, rather than existence; and in this enactment of life which is nothing but a series of pictures of the poses of non-existence, existence cannot be discovered. It is just not there. But we are not able to reconcile ourselves in spite of this unfortunate and hopeless state of affairs into which we have been thrown by causes unknown; and there is a voice speaking from within us from a realm which refuses to get identified with the picture of this drama of life we call phenome...