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Essays by Pujya Swamiji

Collection of Essays by Swami Dayananda Saraswati - Part 2

DO ALL RELIGIONS HAVE THE SAME GOAL?    “Do all religions have the same goal? I wish they had! Then, the differences among religions would only be cultural. By its own commitment to a theology, each faith-based religion has its own belief of an end which differs from that of every other faith.

The vision of Vedanta being what it is, the end is in the form of knowledge, not belief.”

GURUPURNIMA    “Guru is a human being as well as an institution. The guru, a human being, provides us with a day for worshipping and celebrating the institution that transcends biographies.”

JAPA    “There is space between the role and the person. But it is not spatial. Role-playing without losing self-awareness is possible through sādhana backed by knowledge. Japa is the sādhana.”

THE TRUE TEACHER    “A teacher is not a professional for he/she has no clients, only students. Teacher-student relationship is one like even mother-child relationship. That means, the teacher cares. This caring for the student makes a teacher real.”

DO ALL RELIGIONS HAVE THE SAME GOAL?    “Do all religions have the same goal? I wish they had! Then, the differences among religions would only be cultural. By its own commitment to a theology, each faith-based religion has its own belief of an end which differs from that of every other faith.

The vision of Vedanta being what it is, the end is in the form of knowledge, not belief.”

GURUPURNIMA    “Guru is a human being as well as an institution. The guru, a human being, provides us with a day for worshipping and celebrating the institution that transcends biographies.”

JAPA    “There is space between the role and the person. But it is not spatial. Role-playing without losing self-awareness is possible through sādhana backed by knowledge. Japa is the sādhana.”

THE TRUE TEACHER    “A teacher is not a professional for he/she has no clients, only students. Teacher-student relationship is one like even mother-child relationship. That means, the teacher cares. This caring for the student makes a teacher real.”