Spiritual Knowledge & The Secret of Work

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 18 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 is edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda (Shāmi Bibekānondo), published in 1901.

Podcast Excerpt: Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries forever. Any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time. It is only with the knowledge of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated forever. So helping someone spiritually is the highest help that can be given to them.

The person who gives others spiritual knowledge is the greatest benefactor of humankind, and as such, we always find that those were the most powerful of people who .....

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0:49.9	Today's talk was edited and adapted from a lecture by Shami Bivikunondo, published in 1901.
1:10.2	Helping others physically, by removing their physical needs, is indeed great.
1:16.6	If a person's wants can be removed for an hour, it is helping them indeed.
1:23.6	If their wants can be removed for a year, it will be more help to them. But if their wants can be removed for a year, it will be more help to them.
1:29.3	But if their wants can be removed forever, it is surely the greatest help that can be given them.
1:37.3	Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries forever.
1:45.0	Any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time.
1:50.0	It is only with the knowledge of this spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated forever.
1:59.0	So helping someone spiritually is the highest help that can be given to them.
2:06.6	The person who gives others spiritual knowledge is the greatest benefactor of humankind,
2:14.6	and as such, we always find that those were the most powerful of people who helped others in their spiritual needs,
2:23.3	because spirituality is the true basis of all our activities in life.
2:30.3	A spiritually strong and sound person will be strong in every other respect if they so wish.
2:41.1	Until there is spiritual strength in us, even our physical needs cannot be well satisfied.
2:48.9	Next to the spiritual comes intellectual help. The gift of knowledge is a far higher
2:56.0	gift than that of food and clothes. It is even higher than giving life to a person, because
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