Swami Sankarananda explains that everything is within us. The greatest treasure of life that everybody searches for, namely happiness, is within us, and nowhere else. And this treasure is called God. God is infinite peace, infinite bliss and infinitive knowledge.
God doesn’t dwell somewhere in the sky watching over us and judging our actions as good or bad. This is a fable. It is we who first know whether we did something right or wrong. Our heart tells us right away.
So Vedanta gives this knowledge of the Inner Self, the inner world. It redirects our mind to go back within instead of going out (the opposite of how the mind normally travels). Going into our Self, there we find the actual peace, the actual knowledge, the actual happiness. You cannot find things externally, they are not in the scriptures, churches, temples or mosques. It is in the realization of these things that matters. It resides within us. The biggest temple on earth is our own body, because that is where God resides. He is very much living within us. And because of Him we can move, speak, see, feel, and breathe. We just have have to realize it. And realizing it within oneself is the most invaluable, wonderful and beautiful thing.
This self-realization, this knowledge is universal. It is not confined to any sect or part of the world. It belongs to everyone.
Biography of Swami Sankarananda
God doesn’t dwell somewhere in the sky watching over us and judging our actions as good or bad. This is a fable. It is we who first know whether we did something right or wrong. Our heart tells us right away.
So Vedanta gives this knowledge of the Inner Self, the inner world. It redirects our mind to go back within instead of going out (the opposite of how the mind normally travels). Going into our Self, there we find the actual peace, the actual knowledge, the actual happiness. You cannot find things externally, they are not in the scriptures, churches, temples or mosques. It is in the realization of these things that matters. It resides within us. The biggest temple on earth is our own body, because that is where God resides. He is very much living within us. And because of Him we can move, speak, see, feel, and breathe. We just have have to realize it. And realizing it within oneself is the most invaluable, wonderful and beautiful thing.
This self-realization, this knowledge is universal. It is not confined to any sect or part of the world. It belongs to everyone.
Biography of Swami Sankarananda
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