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Bend Tribune, May 6, 1995, A7 South Bend — "We are all spiritual people. You cannot escape," even if you do not believe. "We are all spiritual beings." This is was one of the messages this past week by Swami Shuddhananda Brahmachari. He spoke at the first Unitarian Church as part of his world tour on the Vedantic Vision of Spiritual Oneness. About 75 people gathered for the talk on reaching spiritual perfection and helping his mission in India. Brahmachari is the founder of the Lokenath Divine Life Mission in Calcutta, where he provides education for the young, training for women and men and medical help. Vedanta is Hindu monastic philosophy. It calls for people to depart from the "myopic vision" of self and materialism, he said, and experience being one with the world. Brahmachari said that as we reach next century, it will be seen that Vedanta answers many of the questions that the world seeks to find regarding equality and justice. Brahmachari was born in 1949 in Calcutta. He has sought spiritual oneness since he was 27, when he renounced his worldly life and joined an order of monks. He said the world has to go beyond the human being and its simple desires. For instance, we cannot change getting older. "We have to see beyond" age and beyond the simplicity of excitement that lasts but a minute, beyond the ego. According to Brahmachari, we have to "unplug our senses" to focus on or inner being and not look for happiness outside our bodies. A person can reach this ultimate goal through meditation, yoga and prayer. "We find peace when we find the original answer within us," he said. The road to inner happiness also includes reincarnation We can go about our worldly duties and not reach the spiritual world of perfection for a long time, he said. It is part of the cycle that we continue to move on to reach perfection in spirit. "When the cycle ends, there will be no happiness or unhappiness. The mind will be in a state of balance that will be unaffected by external things."
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