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The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad : 4.5 - Swami Krishnananda

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============================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 24, 2020. Chapter 4: Overcoming the Limitations of Space and Time -5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. E=mc2 is an algebraic equation. It is not something visible to the eyes. But this knowledge is superior to everything that is visible to the eyes. This little, conceptual equation can do and undo things. It can create the world and destroy the world, though it is merely an algebraic equation. Mere concepts can rule the world, and concepts do rule the world. I gave you a hint the other day that the government is only a concept, and it is ruling the world. Individuals are not the government; particular objects do not constitute money and property and value. Ideals are our properties. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad : 4.4 - Swami Krishnananda

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====================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Chapter 4: Overcoming the Limitations of Space and Time -4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I have been hinting at this point for the last one or two days – namely, that a reality is transcendent to visible objects. All the activities, engagements and enterprises of ours in life are intended for the fulfilment of an ideal which is invisible to the eyes though it appears as if we are clinging to bodies of persons and things. Nobody will be interested in an object or a person unless there is a purpose behind it, and that purpose is other than the person and the thing concerned. My relationship to a person or a thing is for a purpose. That purpose is more important than the person or the thing. This we should not forget. If I love my child, if I have affection for my fath