The Fire Divine

Namaste everyone, the monks are happy to bring you another week of our life. We begin as normal, in Kadavul temple with a Siva homa. We continue with our quote series from Radhakrishnan's lecture The Hindu View of Life.

\"The ease with which Hinduism has steadily absorbed the customs and ideas of peoples with whom it has come into contact is as great as the difficulty we feel in finding a common feature binding together its different forms.\"

\"Half of the world moves on independent foundations which Hinduism supplied. China and Japan, Tibet and Siam, Burma and Ceylon look to India as their spiritual home.\"

\"The Hindu culture possesses some vitality which seems to be denied to some other more forceful currents. It is no more necessary to dissect Hinduism than to open a tree to see whether the sap still runs.\"

\"The differences among the sects of Hindus are more or less on the surface, and the Hindus as such remain a distinct cultural unit, with a common history, a common literature and a common civilization.\"

\"The Hindu attitude to religion is interesting. While fixed intellectual beliefs mark off one religion from another, Hinduism sets itself no such limits. Intellect is subordinated to intuition, dogma to experience, outer expression to inward realization. \"

\"The sacred scriptures make the life of the spirit real even to those who are incapable of insight.\"

\"Hinduism is not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex, but subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization. Its tradition of the godward endeavor of the human spirit has been continuously enlarging through the ages. \"

Satguru gave a profound talk about making our daily life more spiritual through inquiry

\"Is this activity making me more spiritual?\"

\"Is this improving the quality of my sadhana?\" Self-inquiry is powerful and can be seen as the foundation for many mystical and philosophical conclusions.

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