- Thank God
After a period of intense communion, always offer a prayer for the sick etc.
If you have meditated upon the oneness, feeling that you are one with all, then the prayer will be immediately fruitful - though you should not anticipate the result.
Before getting up, thank God for the gift of human birth, intense longing for liberation, and opportunities of spiritual practice.
- Religion
Q. If Religion is the one great unifying factor, then why are there so many different Religions quarelling with another?
A. Because, Religion in the case of these people is not the guiding aspect of their own heart, but is rather guided by their lower animal nature.
In fact, with them Religion is just another tool for the animal to use.
Q. How can you accept that the man who denies the existence of God, the man who believes in the Spirits as Gods, the man who worships the Highest God, are all 'religious'?
A. They are all on different planes of evolution.
We merely point out that there should be progress, no stagnation, though we allow one to believe in his own faith or creed.
- Karma Yoga
Deep sleep gives clue to happiness when two conditions are achieved:
(1) world is forgotten (2) the self is also forgotten.
Through Karma Yoga:
(1) world is forgotten when we see God in all.
Namdev took ghee to a dog which took his bread.
Be thankful to him who gives you the chance to serve.
(2) self is forgotten.
Unselfishness is the solution to all problem.
It removes profit motive which causes fric tion, at home, in society, nation and world.
- Expansion and contraction
Expanding universe must also contract.
This expansion and contraction in relation to eternity is as good as "continuous creation".
When you throw a stone in water, waves go out in concentric circles; but after a while it all fills up.
Thus are the two theories of astronomers, viz., 'continuous creation' theory and the 'expanding universe' theory reconciled.
- Matter
The physical, astral (subtle) and causal bodies - everything from the ego-principle down to the tip of the finger - are matter in various states of grossness.
Therefore they react and are acted upon by the world of matter.
But the Self, the Image of God is unaffected by them.