title: Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss
author: Satyananda Saraswati
description: Swami Satyananda performed the disciplines of a wandering ascetic for more than twenty years in India, chanting naked in the snow, meditating in hot springs, sitting for days at a time beside a sacred fire, walking the length and breadth of India, encountering snakes, miracle sadhus, rainmakers, healers, terrorists, palm readers, great saints and ultimately the Divine Mother.
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  The Animosity and 
  Difference Between 
  Liberalism & 
  Conservatism and Other 
  Sociopolitical 
  Philosophies that Govern 
  the Human Way of Life 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Sankar Harikrishnan 
   
   
  
  1 
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Preface 
  In the short life that I have had the 
  privilege to experience and relish, I have 
  had a chance to observe people and 
  politics in such a manner that countless 
  others have not had. I do not know the 
  reason for this; maybe they are not as 
  interested in the subject as I am; they 
  probably did not have the luxury of 
  having as good an education; they might 
  also have more important things to do - 
  get something to eat, send their children 
  to school, earn some money to buy 
  proper clothes for their family - it all 
  exists in this ​phenomenal​ and 
  astounding​ world. 
  Many might think that I am making a 
  mountain out of a molehill, but no, this is 
  the melancholy reality that many 
  fortunate souls have not had to endure. I 
  am no less. I was serendipitous to have 
  been born 