- Impatience
Impatience in Sadhana is wrong.
It covers up the wrong motives and attitude of the ego.
- Existence
Scientists arc studying stars two billion light years away - which do not exist now!
If they do not exist - how can they study non-existence!
Yet they can - for the star exists as a travelling image.
Puzzles:
1.What is existence and what is non-existence?
2. To the All-seeing eye, how will all this appear?
Either as Eternal Existence or Eternal Non-existence?
- Constant
Something that is changing from moment to moment seems to be constant - like the flame of a lamp.
The flames of "fire" are being renewed evcry moment, by fresh fuel being converted into fire - but the single flame appears constant - and it seems a mystery that, remaining constant and doing nothing, that flame has consumed all the oil!
- Good vs Goods
Was Jesus unjust in harshly declaring that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven?
No - because the rich man has goods - several things which he regards and values as good, and these are external and material.
Till he renounces them - by revaluation, he cannot cultivate that which is good, subjective and spiritual.
- Caste
Varna and Ashrama were like the warp and woof of cloth - one cannot stand without the other.
If Varna divided society, Ashrama united members of different castes who were all the same evolutionary level.
It removed the caste-stigma, while preserving the healthy features.