611-Swami Krishnananda

 

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Saturday, March 27, 2021. 09:21. AM.
On Character :
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"Character is one's inward disposition necessitated in terms of the law of the Universal Presence of the Supreme Being at any given level of its expression in empirical life. The implementation of this law in outward behaviour is conduct. Hence one's character and conduct have to be assessed, not in the light of what a book has said, what a community or society considers as its tradition and culture, or even what all humanity in its human judgment of good and evil may regard as right, but in consonance with that principle of existence in accordance with whose requirements all life is one organism of indivisible interdependence of existence and value. It is the law of the higher level that decides the worth of the lower, and as long as any particular disposition or behaviour is in harmony with the factors that contribute to the completion or perfection of a personality in the direction of the level that is immediately higher in the gradational scheme of the Universe, that should be regarded as character, conduct, morality, ethics, or by whatever name we would like to designate that attitude or outlook of the individual. The Cosmic Form was revealed to Arjuna, the harmonious man, and not to Yudhishthira, the virtuous man."

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