- Flame in Worship
Hindus and devout Christians use it.
Flame always goes up - our mind should always go up, to God.
Flame - fire is the element that stands between the gross and the subtle.
It is independent of external agents, not like electricity which can have power failure.
It teaches us how to steady the mind.
Keep the wind of desire out, shut the doors of sen ses.
Oil, wick and spark must come together to light the lamp: oil is good samskaras, wick is Yoga Sadhana and Guru's Upadesha is the spark.
Then the lamp will burn.
'Burning desire for God' - means steady desire to reach out to God - not spasmodic.
'Light' is necessary to dispel darkness.
We always light up the alter - keeping the room dark, suggesting that in us God should shine and the world should he dark.
- Blessed
'Blessed are ye when you are spoken ill of' - but only if it is for 'My sake'.
This is the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount and Gita Chap. II.
- See God in all
You cannot recognise God until your heart is purified.
Better purify your heart first - then you will see God in all names and forms.
- Sat-Chit
There is insatiable thirst for knowledge.
'Why did God create the world?' - we ask, even after knowing that the mind cannot conceive of the answer.
We want Perfect Knowledge.
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
Perfect knowledge is of something that 'is' - Sat-Chit.
Such knowledge gives us Bliss.
- Atomic bomb and India
I fully believe that the Ramayana and Mahabarata ended in Atomic wars.
What about fall-out dangers?
Excellent! Perhaps it was the radioactive fallout that reduced the life-span of the Indian - shortened his height and robbed him of his intelligence.
Don't laugh - it mlght happen in other parts of the world this time.