The Evolution of Your Spirit | Our Sunday Talks
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Vedanta Philosophy: Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Swami Abhedananda, published in 1896.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our spiritual nature expresses itself in various ways, but on a higher plane. Love of truth, mastery over passion, control of the senses, disinterested self-sacrifice, mercy and kindness to all creatures, desire to help the distressed, forgiveness, faith in a Supreme Being and devotion; all these are the expressions of that higher moral and spiritual nature.
Such qualities cannot be explained as developed from animal nature by means of the struggle for material existence. For they are not to be found in lower animals, although the struggle for existence is there. The moral and spiritual nature of human beings thus cannot be traced as the outgrowth or gradual development of the animal nature.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 0:19.8 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:22.7 | Vedanta Philosophy, |
| 0:25.2 | five lectures on reincarnation by Shami Abedananda, |
| 0:30.4 | published in 1896. |
| 0:37.1 | The amazing achievements of modern science have been opening every day new gates of wisdom |
| 0:47.3 | and slowly bringing human minds near and near to the ultimate reality of the universe. The fire of knowledge, kindled by science, |
| 1:00.0 | has already burnt down many dogmas and beliefs |
| 1:04.0 | that were held sacred by the superstition of the past, |
| 1:08.0 | in which stood in the way of truth-seeking minds. |
| 1:12.6 | In the first place, science has disproved the theory of the creation of the universe |
| 1:19.6 | out of nothing by the action of some supernatural power. |
| 1:24.6 | It has shown that the universe did not appear in its present form or come |
| 1:30.5 | into existence all of a sudden only a few thousand years ago, but that it has |
| 1:36.4 | taken ages to pass through different stages before it could reach its |
| 1:42.2 | present condition. Each of these stages was directly related to a previous stage by the law of causation, |
| 1:52.0 | which always operates in accordance with definite rules. |
| 1:57.0 | The phenomena of the universe, according to science, are subject to evolution, |
| 2:05.1 | that is, a gradual change and progressive development from a relatively uniform condition |
| 2:13.6 | to a relative complexity. From the greatest solar system down to the smallest blade of grass, |
| 2:22.3 | everything in the universe has taken its present shape and form |
| 2:27.3 | through this cosmic process of evolution. |
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