- Happiness
A child saw some fruits on the table and some within the cupboard.
Playfully it took the fruit on the table and threw it away - "There are fruits inside." - but soon discovered that there were none "inside".
It was only a reflection in the mirror.
Even so, man ignores God and busies him self with the joys of the world, soon to discover that they were never there except as a reflection or illusion.
- Kali
Sadasiva on whose breast She dances, nude and dark, is the static background of pure Chit - universal consciousness, white and inert, because pure Chit is Svaprakasha - Self luminous and Nishkriya - without movement.
But apart from and beyond consciousness there can be nothing - hence the Divine Mother stands on the bosom of the Divine Father.
The Mother Herself is all activity.
Her nakedness means that, though She encompasses all, there is nothing to encompass Herself.
Her darkness means that she is inscrutable.
- Man
God created only Man - neither Hindus, nor Europeans, etc., nor scientists, etc.
Distinctions are man-made.
- Senses
The senses cannot perceive Reality; but accept it, on faith.
- Growth
Life means growth - nothing truly lives which does not grow. Man does not live or grow necessarily because he seems to become fat or lean! Even a balloon "grows big" when inflated, and thin when deflated. Growth is of the soul-evolution.
In an article entitled: "The Age of Change: Scientific and Religious", Harlan T. Stetson says in "Science of Mind", September 1962:
"Considering the very rapid strides in scientific progress and the re-adaptation resulting in consequence, what serious attempt has been made by the organised church to adapt itself to the new demands placed upon it?"
We agree that it is possible to re-interpret religion in terms of the day, as the author demands. But it is an extremely delicate operation. It is dangerous to talk of adaptation! If religion becomes irreligious because that is the popular demand - and thus adapts itself, it might survive - but in what form? As a carcass, not as a living fount of inspiration. I would rather admire the massive rock-temples of South India which say: "This generation may not believe. I shall stand on my own ground so that I can serve the next." We should not compromise in the least on fundamentals, but hold our fort and allow mankind time to discover and recover from the perversity of its tastes.