The Total Solution to the Total Problem -6. Swami Krishnananda

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In what sense is man related to God?

This difficulty of positioning man’s personality in this creation we call God’s manifestation has become the background of the development of the various schools of philosophic thought and religious ideologies in the world.

Any doctrine, whether it is scientific, sociological, political, philosophic or otherwise, any concept or any position that one maintains in any manner whatsoever, is an outcome of that person’s appreciation of the relation of man to the universe as a whole.

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The culture of a nation is the outcome of that nation’s understanding of its relation to what it can consider as the reality of life, and so we have cultural and ideological differences, religious distinctions and philosophical dichotomies.

All these arise on account of it being not possible for mankind to project a uniform notion about its relation to what it considers as the possible finality of creation.

The religious man, the philosopher, the social worker, and anyone who places an ideal to be achieved before oneself, hold Reality as something to be achieved in the future.

All expectations are nothing but conscious movements in the direction of an unachieved end, and all our activities, our workshops, our enterprises and our projects are standing demonstrations of our conceptual interpretation of the reality of life as a future possibility and not a present reality.

To be continued