![]() It is freedom that we ask for and it is freedom that anyone asks for. Our longings are, therefore, capable of being collected into a single essential power, an inward urge, which we may call the longing for freedom. Though they look like sensory desires, mental desires, intellectual desires, social desires, etc., they are, at the bottom, the longing of the soul of the human being, which ramifies itself into various distracted rays through the operations of the mind and the activities of the senses. All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately. This aspiration of the human being is really the soul’s longing for freedom. We grow from all sides, and when we long for or desire or yearn or aspire, we do so in a very comprehensive manner. We seem to have a root which is deeper than what can be comprehended by our normal understanding of the world. Our desires are profound, our yearnings are very unintelligible to outer atmosphere of our daily life. Our longings are fundamentally very deep and cannot be easily satisfied by temporary make shift or day-to-day adjustment of outer circumstances. ![]() It consists of lectures delivered during Navaratri. A collection of messages by Swamiji during various spiritual festivals including this message can be found in Swamiji’s book, “Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals”.Ĭlick here for another discourse on Navaratri by Swami Sivananda.Ĭlick here to download Swami Chidananda’s book “God As Mother”. This Navaratri message was given in on the 13th of October, 1972. ![]()
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