- Fire
The Siva Lingam is a pillar of fire.
Fire has two qualities - heat and energy.
By pouring water on the Lingam, the devotee removes the heat aspect from the fire and keeps only the energy aspect.
- Religion
Religion, real religion, is ancient and older than time itself, yet ever new.
Religion needs no name. Love God, Serve All - that is Religion.
If a religion creates a division, then that religion is a fracture!
- Consciousness
Plants and animals have simple consciousness.
Humans who think "I am" have self consciousness.
But to be conscious of God in every action and in everything in the universe, both animate and inanimate, that is Cosmic Consciousness.
If you want to become established in this consciousness, you must remove the veil of ignorance.
- Atom and Atma Jnana
Knowledge of the Self.
We are told that the split atom is so powerful that it can bring about drastic changes in the genes that govern the characteristics of man-normally almost impossible of achievement.
It may be that this is what was aimed at by the practice of Yoga-specially Japa Yoga and Kundalini Yoga. Between the Perfect Soul and the imperfect man there are some fundamental differences-defects. If they are removed, imperfect man will become perfect Yogi. The persistent bombardment of the genes in man enabled this to be affected. This breaking up of the extremely subtle genes, demanded extremely subtle power and the Mantra Chaitanya coupled with concentrated mind did this trick and provided this subtle power.
- Heredity
Here is Weismann's theory of "continuity of germ plasm".
The original germ-cell splits into two; one half gradually develops itself into the body of a plant or animal - this is the Lumah-cell; the other half remains encased in the body, practically unchanged, and is transmitted in the process of reproduction to the offspring, that is, the germ-plasm.
Now, this germ-plasm is unbroken through the whole line of propagation.