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(Spirit or God). The Sankhya school defines Parambrahma as that Being which
is complete, without beginning or end. 26
Spirituality entails the search for “the real, the transcendent, the
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divine”. It is the path to Self-realization, or the absolute identification with
the inner spirit, the soul or Self 28 , in Eastern terminology, and to salvation 29
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in Western. Both Self-realization and salvation describe the same goal:
…the longings of the human spirit for the
permanent, eternal, everlasting – for wholeness,
peace, joy and bliss, which have haunted human
beings throughout history and for which many
persons on our planet are seeking today. 30
In short, spirituality as both purpose and praxis is the pursuit of satchidananda
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– sat, eternal existence; chit, omniscience; and ananda, everlasting bliss , where
the triumvirate represents Parambrahma, the ultimate Spirit, Being, or God.
26 Swami Sri Yukteswar. The holy science.
27 Cousins, Ewart. (Ed.). World spirituality: An encyclopaedic history of the religious quest. New York:
Crossroad Publishing Company, 1985. Quoted in King, “One planet, one spirit”, 71.
28 Paramahansa Yogananda. Autobiography of a yogi. Los Angeles, California: Self-Realization
Fellowship, 1946.
29 Rifkin, Spiritual perspectives on globalization.
30 King, “One planet, one spirit”, 71.
31 Chopra, Deepak. How to know God: The soul’s journey into the mystery of mysteries. New York:
Harmony Books, 2000; Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, pray, love: One woman’s search for everything
across Italy, India and Indonesia. New York: Penguin Books, 2006; Rifkin, Spiritual perspectives
on globalization; Swami Sri Yukteswar. The holy science.
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