Recent content by Swami V. Ānanda

One shortcoming of the atheistic point -of-view is that it can not provide real happiness. Real happiness is pure happiness.

@2Dbunk1: If you are referring to materialism as facts (matter and energy being all), then I guess I am a materialist. Or are you referring to materialism as being the acquisition of expensive toys to be put on display to impress others? Swami responds: Materialism as facts and materialism as...

I think of happiness like a friend. Everyone has happiness just as everyone has friends. You will find that not all are true friends and not all happiness is true happiness. True friends are around through the good and hard times and bad friends are not. True happiness is around through good...

From the American Journal of Psychiatry: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.161.12.2303 "Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who committed suicide than subjects who endorsed a religious...

On Happiness: True enjoyment and happiness in life are not possible, unless it is secured on a lasting basis. Like Buddhism, Hinduism also clearly and emphatically recognizes the suffering that is inherent to earthly life and traces its root cause to desire only. Beings are unhappy because they...

🙏Why do scientists focus more on the things they are aware of instead of on the awareness itself?

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AgnosticBoy: "I can give a few guesses at what you mean. Obviously, when you compare the definitions between cause and effect, there is a difference. I suppose you're referring to some timeless part of the universe, or something else?" No I was speaking from the perspective of Self. If you...

There are three big questions of life that science has not answered for. These questions deal with the origin and nature of life, the Universe, and consciousness. For this topic I will focus on consciousness.🙏 To date, scientists study consciousness by looking at the brain activity associated...

Spiritual gifts exist today since the Universe of Jesus is the same as ours. Jesus relied in the principle of mind over matter. This is among the best example, “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes...

Free-will is a trap. In reality all is one. There is no real difference between cause and effect.

Which is the one true religion? There are many religions all with good insight to offer. I like to think of religions as a tree with many branches. At the root, you find all of the core beliefs that all religions agree on. From there, there begins a branching out into different religions...

Let us take a step back. How do you know anything? Some may say, through the senses, others may say it is through reason, but ultimately the faculty that is present in both is awareness. Scientists today have not been able to explain the origin and nature of consciousness, and the biggest...

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