“The World Looks to India with Such Admiration” This is part of the evolutionary process that we’ve come to see: that we recognize each other as brothers and sisters or we destroy each other and the plan along with it. “The ideal religion should be: ‘May all beings be happy’, may all beings be free of suffering.’ It doesn’t say, ‘may all Indians be happy,’ or ‘may all Hindus be happy but not the Muslims or the Christians’ and so on, because all of us have that spark of the same one God within each one of us. That’s why you have these beautiful statements in the Upanishads that ‘the world is one family’, and ‘truth is one, even though the rishis call it by many names’. Here, you find this truly universal teaching which is not speaking to a member of this religion or that religion, or to a member of one ethnicity alone, it’s talking to that human condition all around the globe.
Talking about India’s spirituality, let us go back to that Golden Age of civilization from which the Gita, the Yoga Sutras and the Upanishads came. Swami Chidanandaji: “This is something very dear to my heart as it was to our guru Paramahansa Yogananda, and to one of the core missions that he was sent to accomplish. Swamiji, what role do you feel India’s spirituality can play in the growing global spiritual civilization? During his stay in India, Swami Chidanandaji was interviewed on matters of import affecting different strata of society and the world. Swami Chidananda Giri, president and spiritual head of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship (YSS/SRF), recently visited India and gave inspirational talks on the Kriya Yoga teachings of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (author of the Autobiography of a Yogi and founder-Guru of YSS/SRF).
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