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On Reason and Higher Life - 1. Swami Krishnananda.

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=========================================================== Wednesday, 15  Nov 2023  05:30. Article Philosophy On Reason and Higher Life - 1. Swami Krishnananda ============================================================== First of all, it has to be remembered that reason is not everything, and it is futile to work up an apotheosis of reason. This itself is contrary to reason, and it is a prejudiced faith of the human mind which makes it imagine that reason is all. You ask, 'On what is faith based?', but I ask, 'On what is reason based?' 'Who told you that reason itself is reasonable?' Don't you think that this itself is a faith that you have inherited due to your social circumstances which you yourself condemn on another occasion? That the human mind unquestionably clings to the doctrine of a reason for everything and does not want to accept anything which cannot have a reason shows that the mind is prejudiced; and do you call this rationality? Secondly, i...