- Karma
Obviously all the Karma is not allotted to one birth as Prarabdha - Karma determining present life.
For then a child dying at birth would obtain Moksha - liberation.
Only a portion is allotted to each birth.
Here is both intelligence and mercy - intelligence in the selection and mercy in so grouping the good and evil Karmas to be worked out that in no birth is there an excess of either pain or pleasure.
- First Karma
The first Karma was the jiva's - soul's choice.
Why did one Jiva choose Satva - purity, Rajas - restlessness, or Tamas - dark inertia.
Why is absurd, for here we are not dealing with metaphysics but "history".
Why did Adam disregard God's command and eat the apple?
The question is absurd. That he did is fact, an event in history.
- Free will is God within
Are we victims of the materialistic age, or are we manufacturers of it?
We do have the liberty of expressing our own nature.
That free will is God within and we must not surrender it - not to anyone.
It is very easy to blame society or the age - that is cooking up a lame excuse to cover up our own fears.
- Ours
The earth is rotating on its own axis and revolving around the sun - all at terrific speeds!
We do not know - because we are part of the atmosphere the earth carries around with it.
Similarly, as this universe is a cell in the Body of God, we do not know - because we are a little particle, part of the total mystery.
An astronaut, as he was hurtling round the earth, wondered "what was keeping the earth there ... over his head".
To him it was securely kept, for him to re-enter.
Yet, the entire solar system itself may feverishly be moving, revolving or dropping.
We cannot know - perhaps we do not care, so long as the relative distance in 'our' solar system is not altered.
- Mind - Friend or Enemy?
Mind is our greatest enemy and our greatest friend.
If it is a pure mind - sensible and pure, it can guide us.
It can guide us into the sanctuary and take us to the threshold of intuition.
If it is an evil mind - it can drag us down. In accepting the mind as an enemy, you are accepting fear.
Mind itself is neither good nor bad, but it is what is fed into it that counts.
There is always one part of the mind looking at the other part, whatever you are doing, and therefore, the whole mind cannot be evil.