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live within all beings in the form of their immortal souls." In this manner, he reveals a sacred, spiritual truth, the most secret, most subtle, subtler than the subtlest truth. The permanent, eternal, spiritual fact that God is the indwelling, divine presence in everything that exists is the essence of the great vedantic philosophy. The same truth is revealed on the basis of personal experience by the sages and seers of the vedic, upanishadic era as Sarvam khalvidam brahma or Ekameva adviteeya brahma: Brahma is the only one, there is no di They not only declared it, but also formulated a way to reveal that state of experience, by which we can perceive it ourselves. They make their gift to humanity complete in the sense that everyone of you sitting here can adopt a beautifully systematic philosophy in your life, and that is called yoga shastra. The teachings of yoga as a complete and systematic science are available in our holy land of India as a unique treasure inherited from the past.
Although this philosophy may not be available in such a systematic way elsewhere, all the saints, sages, seekers, renunciates and devotees that ever existed in the human world have all been yogis. There has been a spiritual way of life in every religion and tradition. Seekers, whether they be Buddhist, Jain, Jewish, Zarathustrian, Muslim or Christian, have existed in every religion. Everyone of them has entered deep into the spiritual dimension of his own religion as a seeker of truth and has experienced that divine reality as God, the creator of the universe. They all have followed their own different paths, using different methods to obtain their spiritual experiences, doing chanting, meditation, or following a lifestyle as devotees. Finally, as a result of their efforts, they have experienced liberation from all sufferings, and attained bliss and peace.
However, none of them knew the word 'yoga'. Even without knowing yoga, they have all been blessed. Whether they are Muslim Sufi saints calling that state by the name of Allah, or Zoroastrian saints calling it Ahura Mazda, or from the Hassidic sect of Judaism, everywhere there have been many great spiritual. luminaries. They have allo attained the same experience of great transcendental reality that immediately bestows upon them the experiences of fearlessness, freedom, peace, joy. In Christianity, the religious monasticism
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