Paramhansa Yogananda’s guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar is quoted in Autobiography of a Yogi as making the statement, “So long as you breathe the free air of earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service.” One naturally asks, why be grateful without reason?
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Many people accept the common equation of material success with monetary profit, but monetary profit, without corresponding inner satisfaction, is a hollow victory. Material success means nothing if, in the act of seeking it, we lose our peace of mind.
Human problems have their roots deep in human nature. Their only possible solution lies quite outside the political arena—in a broad shift of consciousness. Governments cannot set the moral tone for an age. They can only reflect back what the populace already perceives as true and is willing to accept.