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=========================================================================== Tuesday, 02 Apr 2024.  05:30. Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 1: Spirituality is the Expansion of Being - 2. Post-2. ============================================================================ Whatever be the extent of our knowledge, whatever be the depth of our genius, we cannot get out of the idea that we are in space, we are in time, and things are connected in some sort of a causal relation. Not only that—we have the idea that things are outside us. Now, I am again coming to the point of  the difference between being and doing. Why has this peculiar notion of there being a distinction between being and doing arisen? It is because you have a distinction between yourself and other people in the world. There is a distinction drawn between yourself and others. You are not I, and I am not you. This is something very simple to understand. Inasmuch as my existence—which is called 'my being

============================================================================ Tuesday, 06 Feb 2024.  05:30. Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 1: Spirituality is the Expansion of Being - 1. Post-1. =============================================================================== Spirituality is not a way of living in the sense of conducting oneself outwardly in relationship to other people, but rather it is a state of being—a term with which everyone is familiar, but the meaning of which is not clear to most people. Everybody has heard the words 'being' and 'doing'; and merely because we are familiar with the words 'God', 'freedom', 'immortality', etc., the meaning of these words is not necessarily clear. Spirituality is a state of being. But a doubt will arise in the mind: Is it not also doing something? Is it only being? We have heard from many people that spirituality also implies intense unselfish activity; the more we become sp

================================================================ Tuesday, 06  Feb 2024.  05:30. Article Philosophy Philosophical Deliberations: ================================================================ The consideration of the nature of the Supreme Absolute is known as Ontology. Contemplation on the nature of the Creative God is known as Theology. The study of the nature of the world is Astronomy, Geology, Geography and History. The study of the individual is Psychology, including Psychoanalysis. The study of the relationship between God and the world is Cosmology. A probe into the relationship between the world and the individual is Epistemology. The study of the relationship between individual and God is Religion. The study of the relationship between one individual and another individual is Sociology, which includes Economics, Ethics and Politics. Meditation is just Total Thinking. Now, what does this mean? Generally when a person commences meditation, there is the initial at