Spiritual Import of religious festivals

Description

This book is intended for anyone who wants to go deeper into why festivals came to be, their historical origin, and critically their spiritual significance. Those who are already on the path spiritual will find terrific acceleration to their endeavors, enhanced meaning to their understanding thus far, and a new spirit to their pace. Others will find a clarification for why they need to alter their approach to ‘celebrating’ these moments in history that repeat year after year. It is very striking, even if obvious, that these events repeat year after year as if God Himself is giving us yet another chance to renew our relationship with life.

This book is a compilation of the lectures on religious festivals, delivered by Swami Krishnananda on different occasions. Swamiji has only briefly hinted at the ‘story’ behind the festival while his effort has been entire to stress the significance of the rituals of a festival with the spiritual ascension of man. As the Publisher’s Note to the second edition rightly observed, “There is a meaning behind every act, or ritual in the religious field, even as there is a hidden purpose behind the implementation of any project or the doing of any work. Rarely are religions seen to awaken themselves to the spirit that they are expected to convey, the living flame which they enshrine and without which they remain forms without content.”