Spirituality in Life: Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================================= Wednesday 30, April 2025, 08:30. Spirituality in Life: Swami Krishnananda Message issued on the occasion of Swamiji's 54th Birthday in April 1976) ======================================================================================= The philosophy and culture of India is one of ananda, or Bliss. “From Bliss-Absolute we have come; in Bliss-Absolute we are rooted; and to Bliss-Absolute are we destined,” says the Taittiriya Upanishad. It is not a message of pain, agony and distress. Pessimism is unknown to India's culture. It is a culture of exuberant positivity of approach, an approximation to God in the end, who is the greatest of positivities. Life is held to be a movement from joy to joy, and it is this that we call the evolutionary process of the soul. It is movement from a lesser truth to a higher truth, which is a better way of putting things than to repeat the hackneyed tradition ...