- Maya
1. God is Omnipresent - that is the ultimate Truth.
Any concept that runs counter to it should be reconciled to it.
2. God's intelligence and power create and sustain all, even the atheist who denies God, even as your dream can create a robber of whom you arc afraid.
3. The apparent diversity assumes reality.
Though the cause - Maya is unreal, the effect, diversity, is real.
Dream-robber is false, but not the shout, the palpitation and perspiration.
When this vanishes, we shall sympathise with the joys and sorrows of all.
If we are One, then your pain must be felt by me.
- First Karma
The first Karma was the jiva's - soul's choice.
Why did one Jiva choose Satva - purity, Rajas - restlessness, or Tamas - dark inertia.
Why is absurd, for here we are not dealing with metaphysics but "history".
Why did Adam disregard God's command and eat the apple?
The question is absurd. That he did is fact, an event in history.
- Life and Death
The Sannyasi who thinks of the after-life does not think of "death".
In this life, he contemplates future life - eternal life.
He who lives only for this life, lives in death!
We should not tarry in negative - but jump to positive at once.
- Idol Worship
Even if there are millions of gallons of water in the ocean, you can take only as much as your vessel can hold.
Similarly, even though God is Infinite, you can experience Him for the present, only through your finite mind - limited to Name and Form.
God does not need the form, but your mind does.
God does not need your worship, but you do.
- Faith
Without initial faith we shall not enter the religious life.
You believe the words of the electrician that if you put the switch on, the light will burn.
If you do not, the light will not burn, as you will not switch it on.
But you should not be content with this second-hand knowledge!
You should switch it on and see for yourself - practise religion!
Then, you do not say any longer: "The electrician says that the light will burn."
You know it - you say so on your own authority, as it were.
Blind faith ruins religion.
Faith followed by personal experiment and experience, strengthens it.