1: The Arduous Task of Self-Analysis 8

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In such a world you have to summon God, the great succour of mankind. This is your sadhana, and this is the week for gathering your thoughts and ideas for considering the possibility of living a life spiritual, which means to say a life in the Almighty in this world of realities. Can you bring down the ideal of the omnipresent Almighty to this real world of tensions, problems, difficulties, sickness and death? If this could be possible, spirituality would be possible in this world. Otherwise, you have to bid goodbye to it forever.
But you have concluded that it is possible and it should be possible; otherwise, you would not be here today in this hall.



Something or someone tells you that it is somehow practicable, and if it is not practicable it has to be made practicable, for which purpose you are here to conduct an analysis and a deliberation with the cooperation of other seekers and friends. If it could be possible, what is the way out? This way out is the so-called sadhana which you are expected to practise to the extent possible, not only in these few days of the Sadhana Week but also the other days when you are at your home, in your business, in your office, and in your own vocations of life.
We should not be under the impression that everything is as fine as velvet.



The world is not so soft a thing as it is made to appear before us. It is not always a flow of milk and honey. Sometimes it looks like that, but it is not always that. So within these few days let us conduct a further analysis to determine whether some jot of honey can be gathered in this wild desert of what is usually called samsara or this world. Is there an oasis in this desert, or is this only a dry desert without a drop of water to drink? Is there a hope for this hopeless man? And if there is a hope, what is it that he can expect in this world? What we can expect here and what we hope to achieve here shall be the themes of our discussion in the days to come.

Swami Krishnananda

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