- Religion and Spirituality
What can we learn from the experiences of others, and what should we experience ourselves?
Ritualistic and ethical religious teachings can be learned from the lips and experiences of others, but spirritual truth have to be discovered for ourselves.
We can learn from others that fire will burn if we touch it with our fingers, but if we want to know what it is to beburnt, how it feels, how firefeels, then we will have to have the experience ourselves.
Ideas can be had second-hand, but God must be realised first hand.
Here even a guru can only guide.
- Grace
Grace is inherent in life itself. In recognisable forms, Grace comes as an awakening influence. Grace is cosmic, universal, eternal. It is never absent. We are not aware of it, and so at times in our spiritual growth it comes as pain, failure, misfortune and all sorts of things, rubbing the ego until we wake up! Once awakened, Grace brings about such circumstances that will lead us on to enlightennent.
One can, of course, be impervious to this Grace , disregard it and go back to where one started. Then Grace will come again as an awakening influence. We live in Grace.
- Old Age
To put off yoga to old age, is to offer God the leavings of the devil's dinner!'
- The Mirror
Man has been made in the image of God, we are told.
There is a wonderful meaning in this.
Look into the mirror - you see your image, and it looks at you.
That is what God wants us to do.
We should always look at Him.
- Brain Graft
There is a lot of scientific talk that we may get a whole bran grafted from one to another! Do not forget the brain is just tissue. It will respond to stimulus - but will not think, nor feel, discriminate nor decide. The “I" has to do it. You see me with your eyes and hate me. Another looks through his eyes and loves me. Will changing eyes change your heart too?