An Interview with Swami Premananda

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An Interview with Swami Premananda
At his lecture in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the 21st of September 2005, Benjamin Creme made these comments, quote: “We are lurching from one catastrophe to another because we do not know how to live. We do not know how to live in peace. We do not know why we are here. We do not know what is the meaning and purpose of life on Earth. We don’t even know who we are.” End quote.

To throw some light on this, we’ll read an article from the July August 2008 issue of Share International magazine titled: Discovering our own reality. It’s an interview with Swami Premananda by the Polish magazine “Unknown World”, at the end of 2007. Note that Swami Premananda passed over on the 21st of February 2011.

Swami Premananda is a spiritual Avatar, born in 1951 in Sri Lanka. His ashram near Trichy in Southern India, includes a school and an orphanage. In November 1994 Swami Premananda was arrested on a series of false charges brought to discredit him.

His trial was a sham: young women were pressurized and even physically abused into giving false testimony against him; DNA samples were falsified; and witnesses and testimony supporting his innocence were ignored by the court. He was found guilty and put in prison.

His service, however, continues undisturbed; he answers letters from the thousands of people who write to him for help and advice, and continues to guide the ashram from his prison cell. He also supports his fellow prisoners, many of whom turn to him for advice and help. Despite the deprivations of prison life he always radiates love and contentment and is still renowned for his broad smile.

The first question put to Swami Premananda asks: What is the purpose of being born as a human being? Why were we born on this earth?

To which he answers…. The purpose of human birth is to discover our own reality. Our real Self is not the body. It is not our minds, nor our intellects. You may call this reality Soul, Light, Higher Self, or by any other name you like. Our bodies and our personalities will pass away, but we still survive in a subtle manner. This subtle being takes many lives. It is like changing clothes, discarding one life for another.

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