The Total Solution to the Total Problem - 11. Swami Krishnananda

20/01/2017

VERY IMPORTANT- BHARATHAM - HER SONS DAUGHTERS, MISUNDERSTOOD THE TERM SECULARISM, ESPECIALLY, POLITICAL PARTIES, MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS, ALL OF YOU READ THIS, AND FOLLOW WHAT THE TRUTH IS ...

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Do we call it a political problem?

Yes, naturally it is.

Our encounter with the problems of life is a political problem in one sense, and it is another type of problem from another angle of vision.

It is a philosophic problem; it is a problem that arises out of our location in this world itself, and the understanding of the nature of this location of man in the world is the point at which people are at loggerheads, calling themselves philosophers, calling themselves theologians, calling themselves priests and pundits, teachers, prophets, and social welfare workers.

All these nomenclatures are the designations of the various dramatic personae in this tremendous enactment of the total picture of human encounter with nature in its completeness.

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Therefore, the little services which we behold in the streets and the marketplaces arising out of definitions, wave formations and conceptual and ideological differences leave them.

When in a sinking boat, all people have a similar problem.

There is a single problem before anyone who is in a capsizing boat, and it is not a secular problem or a religious problem or a political problem.

It is a total problem of an en mass starvation and an eventuality of destruction, if we would like to put it so.

The armchair distinctions that we draw while teaching from pedestals and pulpits, politically maneuvered or socially misconstrued, that there is a basket which contains religion and another basket which contains all our values of practical life – these notions are worse than childish, to say the least.

To be continued ..