- Change
You cannot immerse in the same water twice in a river.
That water is always changing.
- Karma
Buddhi Yoga unites our intelligence with God and when Self-realisation is attained, the fruits of Karma will no longer find the personality there.
The following illustration will make this clearer.
During the Spring of one year, birds nest in a tree in your garden.
The following winter you decide to chop this tree down.
When the birds return in the spring of the next year, they do not find the tree and fly away.
This is what happens to your Karma.
It is not there and re-birth is unnecessary.
- Moderation
Wind, rain, sun - are given by God in moderation.
Else they will destroy - as is occasionally seen as samples!
- The I
"Rain is caused by Yajna - fire worship". - Gita.
This is the simple law of combustion.
When fuel burns, the components of the fuel - carbon and hydrogen, combine oxygen and form carbon dioxide and water.
How does the brain think? Ponder this question.
You will realise that the brain cells are insentient - like a juice extractor which does not know the taste of the stuff it crushes.
The Brain is the tool of the mind.
The mind is changeful - as if someone else were in control.
Who? I - mind itself is the tool of the I.
Look at the I. It is not nothing. It is not insentient.
But it is only a reflection in the mind - hence, the confusion of the Omnipresent-scient-potent God.
In a way, therefore, you can say that the I also is a tool.
- Elderly
It will do no harm to children to have to exercise compassion and patience with elderly people.
Spiritually it will teach them a great deal.