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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 14 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 The Vedic Way of Blessedness, edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Abhedananda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When we understand the true meaning of life, we know that life is opposed to death, as light is opposed to darkness. Life, in its most abstract sense, means being, and death means non-being, or non-existence. Where life is, death cannot exist.

If life be a reality, then what we call death must be unreal. That which lives or exists can never die or become non-existent. And that which does not live in any form whatever, can never become existent. Existence can never become non-existence, and non-existence can never become existence. This is the law of nature. Whatever exists will continue to exist.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard the Turkish Airlines podcast channel.
0:07.2	Are you ready for a new adventure?
0:11.0	Merhabah passengers, this is your captain speaking.
0:13.6	Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.
0:44.6	Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.
0:57.0	Today's talk was edited and adapted from The Way to a Blessed Life, edited and adapted from a lecture by Shami Abedinondo, published in 1900. In the whole animal kingdom, human beings alone are capable of solving the problem of life.
1:14.5	Other animals live, but they cannot ask what life is, nor can they understand its purpose,
1:23.4	or the source from which it proceeds. Human beings alone are endowed with intelligence enough to ask such questions.
1:34.3	They alone can understand the purpose and aim of life,
1:39.3	can trace its source and know the various aspects
1:43.3	through which the life principle manifests itself in this world of phenomena.
1:51.0	From time immemorial, this problem of life has been discussed over and over again,
1:58.3	and various conclusions have been arrived at by different philosophers and
2:03.5	thinkers of all ages and all climes. Some say that life is a great blessing, that it is the source
2:12.7	of unbounded joy and happiness, that it is blessedness itself.
2:19.9	While others hold that life is not worth living, because it is full of misery, sorrow and
2:27.4	suffering, disease and pain, and its end is death.
2:33.1	It is true that our earthly life is beset with misfortune, distress, pain, anxiety, and disease,
2:43.6	as well as various other sufferings, which arise from the constant struggle for existence.
2:54.7	Yet none but superficial thinkers will maintain that life is not worth living, or that death is its goal. When we understand the true meaning of life,
3:03.7	we know that life is opposed to death as light is opposed to darkness.
3:09.3	Life in its most abstract sense means being and death means non-being or non-existence.
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