- God-filled
The mind asleep is like the circus-monkey in the cage after the first act, waiting to jump in for the second sct.
The mind in Samadhi is like the monkey shot, never more to play his pranks. The only difference in Samadhi is that the mind is not killed, but sublimated, purified and God-filled.
- Knowledge
Do not say 'Knowledge of the Self', but 'Knowledge that is the Self.'
- Haves and Have-nots
An unsympathiser of India gave me a catalogue of the sins of the Orientals for which they are suffering at the present.
So long as there is great disparity between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots', revolution is unavoidable. It is brought about by two forces:
(1) Fear of the haves losing what they have and
(2) the frustration of the have-nots for not having what they have not.
Comfortable philosophising by the haves of the sins of the have-nots only increases the latter's frustration and hastens revolution.
- Prayer an Karma
Prayer does alter our Karma. For prayer itself is an action whose reaction is good. I may be destined to die at the age of 60, for that is my Karma. I now 'do' something - karma, to shorten my life such as taking poison. This takes effect immediately and cancels out the previous Karma. This is what prayer does too, in a beneficial way.
- Balance
God created discrimination in Man in order that he may see God. But then - if all had it all the time - the world would come to an end in fifty years. He also created non-discrimination and delusion in order that the world-play could go on.