The Total Solution to the Total Problem - 8. Swami Krishnananda

31/12/2016.

8.

8.1
We should not be under the impression that the problem of finding a solution to the relationship between man and God is something that concerns an academy or an educational institution or a theological seminary or a temple or an ashram or a monastery or a chapel or a church.

8.2
That this is not the problem of man today may be the feeling of many in the world. In what way is man – prosaic man, crass man, concrete man, the realistic man of human society today – concerned with our question of the relationship between man and God? “Let there be any relation. What does it matter to me?”

8.3
It matters very much. That the so-called realistic, prosaic man of the hardboiled reality of social life does not feel the need to appreciate the value of this great problem is so much credit to his education indeed, because he does not know what exactly he is thinking when he says that this does not concern him.

8.4
It is immediately a concern of even the one who feels that it is not his concern, because the relationship between man and God is the relationship between the present and the future in one way, and in a more significant and vitally pressing way, it is the relationship between the means and the end, the effort and the fulfilment of the effort, the work that we do and the result that it produces.

To be continued ...