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1.#Opinion : Monday, 25 Mar 2023. 05:30. 3477// 1#On Reason and Higher Life - 3. Swami Krishnananda.///

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================================================================================================= 1.#Opinion : Monday, 25 Mar 05:30. 3477. // Article Philosophy 1.#On Reason and Higher Life - 3.  ================================================================================================== It all, in the end, hinges upon whether an act is done for one's personal pleasure or for the good of a larger existence. But no sacrifice should involve pain or injury to others. This is another condition to be borne in mind, barring of course the pains of the nature of the operation performed by the doctor for the good of the patient. To perform a sacrifice it is not always necessary that there should be a 'taker', for sacrifice is not always material. Sacrifice is possible even if you alone exist in the world and there is none else, for sacrifice is more a psychological act of self dedication to a higher existence than a mere parting with material objects, though the giving away of

METHODS OF MIND-CONQUEST - 6 Swami Sivananda.

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======================================================================================= Sunday 24, Mar 2024. 05:30.  Stages of Mind-conquest 1.MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION 2.MIND-CONQUEST BY DISCRIMINATION ========================================================================================= CHAPTER 1 MIND-CONQUEST BY INTROSPECTION Man can bore a diamond with a bristle; he can tie an infatuated elephant with a slender silken thread; he can exercise his ingenuity and through the instrumentality of a mirror bring down the moon for the play of the child; he can make the flame of fire burn always downwards; but it is difficult for him to establish a control over his own mind. For gaining mastery over the mind, he has to know what the mind is, how it works, how it deceives him at every turn and by which methods it can be subdued. As long as the mind restlessly wanders about amidst objects, ever fluctuating, excited, agitated and uncontrolled, the true joy of the Self cannot be realised

1.#Opinion : Tuesday, 23 Jan 2023. 05:30. 3410// 1#On Reason and Higher Life - 2. Swami Krishnananda.///

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================================================================ 1.#Opinion : Tuesday, 23  Jan 05:30. 3410. // Article Philosophy 1.#On Reason and Higher Life - 2. Swami Krishnananda./// =============================================================== Whether it is moral to accept something for nothing is a digression from the point at issue, for unselfish service and accepting something for nothing are two different standpoints. Do you think hat people accept money merely because they do not want the other to receive something for nothing? Is it the consideration of the morality of the others that makes us accept money from them? Have you seen one individual in this world who thinks like this? You know, legal quibbles do not always touch the core of truth. Take the matter as it is, on its face. Do we accept money from others so that others may be benefited by the morality thereof? Definitely not. We want the money for ourselves.  And the morality in regard to the other is irrelevant to