Attaining True Freedom - Swami Krishnananda.

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#Friday, April  23,  2021.  08:05.  AM.
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What I propose to do now is to think loudly so that you may listen to my thoughts, and if any one of you feels that there is some meaning in what I am saying, and it is going to be of some benefit or help to you in your life, I shall really regard myself as thrice blessed. I speak my own thoughts and feelings because one cannot speak honestly what one cannot think and feel in oneself, and what is not one’s honest conviction cannot carry weight and create an impression in the minds of people.

I am like you; there is nothing special in me, and there is, therefore, nothing particular that I can say. But I can cooperate with the ways of thinking of other people and help in bringing about a community of thoughts. This I think is really the intention of international friendship or interstellar friendship, if we would go a little further.

I am very happy to see the word ‘friendship’ mentioned in the letterhead of the organisation that is amidst us here today because it is precisely this that we are lacking in the world. If there is anything that the world does not have, it is friendship, and it is precisely this for which everyone seems to be working hard. We are working for the achievement of something which does not exist in this world because if it already exists, there is no need for working for it. We are aspiring to bring about a condition of things because that condition does not prevail at the present moment. It is high time, I should say, and perhaps every one of you would also agree, that we awaken ourselves to the matter-of-fact values of life and not mere airy idealisms which bear no connection to the truths of life. Many of us are exuberantly idealistic and seem to be soaring in the heavens of imaginary perfection which, because it does not bear a relevance to the facts of life, does not give us satisfaction.

It is towards this that you are moving, I am moving, and everybody is moving. The aim of life is not within the compass of either our senses or our minds. It is transcendent; and our life’s purpose, therefore, may also be said to be transcendent in one sense because it is beyond the reach of our present faculties of knowledge, but it is at the same time immanent because it is hidden potentially even in the present condition of our existence. It is not transcendent in the literal sense, and the achievement or the attainment of the meaning of this transcendent universal mystery would be only an unfolding of the potentiality that is already hidden within every one of us.

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