Swami Krishnananda

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Swami Krishnananda


Born
in South Kanara, India
April 25, 1922

Died
November 23, 2001

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Swami Krishnananda was a highly respected writer, especially on philosophy, metaphysics, yoga, meditation, psychology and sociology. Swamiji's books are known the world over as excellent presentations of answers to the daily questions that arise in the day-to-day confrontations of a human being. Swami Krishnananda was the General Secretary of The Divine Life Society from 1961 until 2001.

Swamiji was a direct disciple of His Holiness Swami Sivananda, founder of this Institution. Swamiji attained Mahasamadhi in 2001.
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The Mandukya Upanishad: An ...

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De la codependencia a la li...

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Channelled Knowledge From T...

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Lessons On The Upanishads

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Yoga, Meditation, and Japa ...

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The Chhandogya Upanishad

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Guruji Speaks: A Compilatio...

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The Secret of the Katha Upa...

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An Introduction to the Phil...

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The Study And Practice Of Y...

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“Arjuna asked Sri Krishna, "In this chaotic condition of my mind, what is my duty? I surrender myself to you, great Master. Please tell me."
The answer of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is, "You understand nothing. You draw conclusions without proper understanding of the structure of life and your relationship to people or things in general. It is a very sorry state. How can you draw conclusions without proper premises? If you draw a conclusion based on a wrong premise, the conclusion is also wrong. Therefore, all that you have been told up to this time is without any foundation because you do not know either yourself or the world.”
Swami Krishnananda, Commentary on the Bhagavadgita

“The universe is something like a powerful radar system that is set up from all sides to record every action and every event that may take place anywhere, even of the least intensity or momentum. Meditation, when it is properly done, is not a silent and non-interfering process of thinking by some individual in some undisturbed corner, but a positive interference with the very structure of the universe and, sometimes, a directly employed system starts working at once and the forces around receive a warning, as it were, that someone is in a state of meditation. Immediately, counter-forces are gathered by what is generally known as the lower nature and the meditation receives a setback.”
Swami Krishnananda

“We may doubt everything. We may even deny everything, but we cannot deny consciousness because it is consciousness that is doubting, and it is consciousness that is denying things. When all things go because of the denial of all things, then what remains? There remains the consciousness of having denied everything and the consciousness of doubting all things. Even if we feel that we do not exist—we are annihilated or we are dead, for instance—even then, we feel that at the back of our imagination of the annihilation of our personality there is a consciousness of the annihilation of personality. Even if we say that there is only a vacuum, and there is nil, and finally nothing exists in the world, there is a consciousness that affirms that nothing exists. Hence, it is impossible to obviate the predicament of a consciousness interfering with all things”
Swami Krishnananda, Commentary On The Panchadasi/Vol 1