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    The Story of Creation

    The Story of Creation

    FromVedanta and Yoga

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    The Story of Creation

    FromVedanta and Yoga

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    50 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 23, 2011
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    Lecture by Swami Tyagananda on the 23rd of October at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston.
    According to Bishop James Ussher (1581-1656), God created the universe on October 23, 4004 BC. That belief makes the universe 6014 years old now. James Ussher was an Irish Archbishop whose chronology of Biblical history was widely accepted throughout Christianity for a long time. This along with stories from the Bible, other traditions and the Vedantic view of creation are discussed.
    Released:
    Oct 23, 2011
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Lectures on Yoga and Vedanta given at the Boston Vedanta Society. Vedanta is one of the world's most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. According to Vedanta, God is infinite existence, infinite consciousness, and infinite bliss. The term for this impersonal, transcendent reality is Brahman, the divine ground of being. Yet Vedanta also maintains that God can be personal as well, assuming human form in every age. Vedanta further asserts that the goal of human life is to realize and manifest our divinity. Not only is this possible, it is inevitable. Our real nature is divine; God-realization is our birthright. Finally, Vedanta affirms that all religions teach the same basic truths about God, the world, and our relationship to one another.