Swami Krishnananda - Universality of Being, @Yoga
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UNIVERSALITY OF BEING
by
S
WAMI
K
RISHNANANDA
The Divine Life Society
Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India
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CONTENTS
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
This is a series of discourses that Swamiji gave to the
Ashram's Y.V.F. Academy during March and April 1996. In
this course Swamiji takes the students through the different
levels of reality, culminating in the highest state of Being.
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to you, all students who have come to
participate in these courses of teaching in the Academy. All of
you are new to me, except one or two, perhaps; and perhaps
you have not attended courses of teaching of this kind up to
this time, though you must have had a vague feeling of the
benefits that accrue to you by attending them. Possibly you
have a feeling that you will become healthier in your person,
more peaceful in your mind, and you will also succeed better
in your workaday world. These are the common ideas that
may be present in all of you, and they are all valid feelings, of
course; and it should be like that.
After the participation in the teachings you must
certainly feel better in every way – not only in some way, but
in all ways. In order to have an inkling of what is meant by
‘all ways’, you have also to have an idea of what you are
yourself in regard to everything that you need, require and
aspire for in your life. What is it that you are looking for?
Anything and everything – there is nothing that you would
not like to have.
If you would like to have every kind of blessedness, it
should also be possible for you to prepare yourself as a
proper recipient of this blessedness. The all-sided
blessedness can be received only by an all-sided instrument.
If you are a fraction of a person, you will have only a fraction
of blessedness. The amount of sunlight that will enter your
room depends upon the opening available through which the
sunlight can pass. If there is only a little hole or slit, only that
much light will come to your room. If you are a little tiny
individual personality, capable of imbibing into your life only
little things, only that much blessedness will be your fortune.
You cannot be a small man and then ask for so many things.
The world is very big, and it has all resources within itself.
The unhappiness that is usually characteristic of human
nature may be attributed to the limited quantum of the
resources of the universe that are available to you. You
would like to have all the blessings of the world, but you do
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