Each soul is potentially divine.
The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.
Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy – by one or more or all of these – and be free.
This is the whole religion. Doctrines or dogmas or rituals or books or temples or forms are but secondary details.
— Swami Vivekanand
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The word Āshram means a place or stage where one makes disciplined effort—whether for learning, service, self-growth, or spiritual practice. The Āshrama System in Hindu
The word Āshram means a place or stage where one makes disciplined effort—whether for learning, service, self-growth, or spiritual practice. The Ashrama System in Hindu
The word Purushārtha means human goals. In our spiritual texts, the word is also used in other senses — sometimes it refers to free will,