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============================================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Sunday 13, April 2025, 08:30. 3897 / Article Spirituality The Ideal of Humanity: Swami Krishnananda-2. (Taken from the Divine Life magazine in 1977) =============================================================================================== Human nature is variegated. It is not all men and women that are fully human beings. We have animal nature in human nature mixed up sometimes, or oftentimes, and it gets rarefied as evolution rises higher and higher. So we may safely say that even among human beings we have animalmen, even as we have selfish men, ordinary men, good men, saintly men and God-men. We cannot say that all are of the same type, and therefore it is impossible for every human being to entertain the same attitude towards life or put forth the same kind of effort. What is the ideal of life of a cat, or a mouse, or a buffalo? Well, one may think they have no aims. It...

  ========================================================================================================================= Saturday 12, March 2025, 09:10. Yoga&Meditation Yoga as a Universal Science-11-1. Chapter 11: Individual Disciplining of One's Own Self Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================================================== Chapter 11: Individual Disciplining of One's Own Self: We have been discussing the nature of the disciplines known as the yamas in the Yoga system of Patanjali, with a view to understanding, in a general way, their meaning and their practice. But, apart from the general information concerning the observance of these yamas, there are also particular details about it which vary from circumstance to circumstance, and from individual to individual. These details have to be gone into by each student or disciple with his teacher, who will offer personal guidance in the matter. The yam...