- Chitragupta
We accept the Day of Judgment and also the hidden Record - Chitragupta. But what no one can accept is that all of us are to remain suspended and that all of us will be judged on the same day. Even a judge in our law courts would not want his work to accumulate or to double-punish the "early" sinners by keeping them under detention without trial.
- Meditation
Purpose of meditation: growing in His image.
It is wrong to say that we do not know how to meditate and be oblivious of the outside world.
Everyone does some form of daily contemplation on something he intensely loves - only it is not God.
If the child or the beloved one is away and sick, one often enters the " meditative" mood.
- Bhagavad Gita
(a) Man must do his duty. If he does not, the social structure is disrupted. It is God's mission to uphold righteousness, that God is within each man. Hence Man should pursue Dharma and take measures as His Instrument to establish Dharma on earth.
(b) Dharma is the power of God which upholds creation and sustains and preserves life. Man should understand this and thus free himself from the feeling that he carries a burden of responsibility and from the sense of want which 'compels him to acquire and hoard'. Dharma works through him and others for mutual sustenance and protection.
Dharma is Love - which is unselfishness - Swaha.
- Alcohol
If I had the power, I would scrap the Ten Commandments which in any case few observe, and substitute them with one: Do not drink alcohol.
- Love and Justice
People unnecessarily confuse themselves over the two propositions: God is Love - God is Just.
They expect love to be lenient and lax, law to be exacting and severe. They visualise the two as being poles apart and not characteristics of the same Being. But the solution lies in understanding that the Law is the operation of Love, and Justice is the expression of Love.
The mother does not give medicine to her child out of malice, but out of love. It is needed to restore health to the child. The judge punishes the criminal for the love of society and the criminal's own ultimate good.