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"Study of Great Lives" (Swami Tyagananda) — Vedanta Society

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What are the benefits of studying the lives of saints? How will this make me a better person?

“ Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. ” - H. W. Longfellow Before we do anything we must, of course, know why we are doing it. But if we observe carefully, we may see that most of our actions are done mechanically. Most of the time we are not aware why we do the things we do. Often we do things because everybody seems to be doing them. A few things we do simply because we like them, that’s all. Only when we are confronted with situations we do not relish or are afraid to face, we pause and say, “Why th

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