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Belur Math: Swami Vivekananda Temple ========================================================================== =========== Friday 12, Jul 2024, 05:30. UNITY, THE GOAL OF RELIGION:  Swami Vivekananda (Delivered in New York, 1896) Belur Math ======================================================================================= This universe of ours, the universe of the senses, the rational, the intellectual, is bounded on both sides by the illimitable, the unknowable, the ever unknown. Herein is the search, herein are the inquiries, here are the facts; from this comes the light which is known to the world as religion. Essentially, however, religion belongs to the supersensuous and not to the sense plane. It is beyond all reasoning and is not on the plane of intellect. It is a vision, an inspiration, a plunge into the unknown and unknowable, making the unknowable more than known for it can never be "known". This search has been in the human mind, as I believe, from the very be...

A DAY IN ASHRAM ========================================================================================= Thursday 11, Jul 2024, 05:30. Parenting is more than duty:   Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha. Narayanasrama Tapovanam ======================================================================================== Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha answers questions on parenting and dutyI love my children, but there are times when I really feel that parenting is a huge burden.Finding a balance between home and work can be so exasperating How do I overcome this?While to some extent, desire and its consequent burden are part of household life, the fact remains that this plight robs away the very purpose and fruition of the householder. The question is: Do you like such a plight? If you do not, the straight answer is:.be free of undue desire and the burden it fetches. Learn to live in peaceful harmony with yourself.Desire of any nature always constricts the mind. Such constriction prevents the mind ...

=============================================================================== Wednesday 10, JUL  2024, 05:30. Do We Have Subtle Sense Organs, Beyond the 5 Physical Senses We Recognise?:  Sri Aurobindo. ============================================================================= We are generally so fixated on the impressions we receive through the action of the five physical sense organs, that we fail to recognise that we frequently sense things without these senses providing any input. For instance, people can frequently sense when someone is staring at them, even when they have not seen nor otherwise experienced the presence of that individual. People sometimes experience fear, or horror in certain circumstances that have otherwise no visible cause for alarm. Sometimes people experience a sense of deep peace, or joy, or calm in a particular locale, such as an old growth forest which can be almost palpable, but is clearly a subtle response to the environment, not based on a...