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Swami Ashokananda Was A Brilliant And Accomplished Spiritual Teacher In The West.

Built Into Human Makeup Is A Longing For A 'more' That The World Of Everyday Experience Cannot Requite.

I Don't Want To Justify Religion In Terms Of Its Benefits To Us. I Believe That, On Balance, It Does A Lot Of Bad Things, Too - A Tremendous Amount. But I Don't Think That The Final Justification Of Religion Is The Good It Does For People. I Think The Final Justification Is That It's True, And Truth Takes Priority Over Consequences. Religion Helps Us Deal With What Is Most Important To The Human Spirit: Values, Meaning, Purpose, And Quality.

Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From What Is Inferior To It - Life Begins In Slime And Ends In Intelligence - Whereas Traditional Cultures See It As Descended From Its Superiors. As The Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins Put The Matter: We Are The Only People Who Assume That We Have Ascended From Apes. Everybody Else Take It For Granted That They Are Descended From Gods.

If You Are Drilling For Water, It's Better To Drill One 60-foot Well Than 10 6-foot Wells.