The Total Solution to the Total Problem - 14. Swami Krishnananda

10/02/2017.

14.1
So what I am trying to drive into your minds is that this is not a conceptual difficulty that is before us; it is a down-to-earth, real problem before us.

And all disappointments to which people are many a time subject in their struggles for existence and success in life are the stumblings which they suffer from due to not seeing the path to this relation clearly with open eyes.

They slip and fall, and repent for the mistake they have committed.

14.2
The path to the reality of life is strewn over with umpteen difficulties.

 It is as if we are biting our cheeks and wrenching our fists to catch our enemy, but finding not where he is.

14.3
All our occupations in life, the whole activity of historical mankind, is a struggle with God, an encounter with nature, a fight with reality.

This is the epic of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana,  whatever we may call it, before us.

14.4
Thus, life is neither religious nor secular. It need not be called by these names that we have coined from our dictionaries.

It is a total encounter of all these we call brethren in a single boat that is plying very precariously in this tumultuous ocean of samsara, as it is called in Sanskrit.

The samsara is a world entanglement.

It is sometimes compared to a vast sea with turbulent waves, and this journey is along that difficult path.

To be continued ...