- Fear
When not worrying about the past, you are worried about the distant future.
"A famine may come and I may not have food to eat" - you create the famine now and suffer.
Fear of disease creates it.
Fear of death kills you several times a day.
- See God in all
But - what is "God"?
How d0 you explain "heat" - to the fish in the ocean or an Eskimo?
You take him near a stove and make him touch it - "That is heat".
Even so is Puja or meditation.
- East
When mankind finds itself enshrouded by darkness, gloom, it turns eastwards
When you are oppressed by the darkness of night, you turn east to see if there is the glimmer of the dawn.
- Senses
The senses cannot perceive Reality; but accept it, on faith.
- Meta-physics
The time has come to end all wordy warfare and meta-physical squabbles.
After physics, metaphysics.
True, everything up to the Ultimate can be covered in this specious "after".
But, we do recognise in the realm of metaphysics, the two distinct regions where two different laws operate - the lowlands of reason and the up country of intuition.
The climate is entirely different, and the wearing apparel, too.
If you go with the lowland costume - mind, logic and reasoning, into the upcountry of Revelation, you will catch cold!
Though modern (Einstein's) theories contradict and cancel the older (Newtonian) theories in physics, yet, the latter are effective in their own limited spheres.
In the same way, Gaudapada laughs at theories of creation and Karma which, however, operate ill planes lower than absolute idealism.