Wake Up! - Swami Venkatesananda
================================================================================================== Tuesday, 03November 2026, 06:00. Wake Up! - Swami Venkatesananda This article is from the book “Multiple Reflections”. ==================================================================================================== What are the scriptures or texts? What is their genesis, and for whom are they intended? The question is very simple but very interesting because the scriptures have been with us for thousands of years, but our life seems to be the same as if the truths did not exist at all, as if we had nothing to go by. What happens to the scripture? Usually it adorns our libraries and is hardly ever looked at. You might have noticed that whenever people are asked to read from the Bible or some other text, they go to their favourite passage and keep reading that. It is like wearing blinkers. We don’t see the whole truth, so the scriptures don’t seem to make much of an impact upon u...