- Evil
The problem of evil cannot ultimately be solved by the human mind.
Study scriptures: you find that God is said to create evil, tolerate or even encourage it!
Why? For the simple reason that that is the only way in which the Good can be revealed and exalted.
If you buy a powerful torch, you look for darkness to prove its quality.
If you flash it in daylight, you will be disappointed.
- Sudra
Servant caste.
The danger of devotion without knowledge - a Brahmin does Japa - repetition of the Lord's Name and Puja - worship, and meditates on the Lord's Feet.
In the Purusha Suktha it is said that the Sudra emerged from His Feet.
Yet the Brahmin will drive the Sudra away - the Living Feet of the Lord while meditating on Them in his own heart.
- A four-fold attitude
To help us attain peace and happiness there is a four-fold attitude towards the world which we should try to cultivate:
1. Develop friendliness towards people on our own level.
2. To those who are at a little lower level in any way, have compassion, not contempt. Serve, help and try to teach them.
3. Those who are superior to us in any way we must look upon with joy. Do not be jealous and envious. Do not try to bring them down but be happy that they have that position and always rejoice at the prosperity and good fortune of others.
4. There are those who are wicked or those who regard themselves as our enemies. In spite of all your efforts of goodwill, you will still have enemies who are jealous, frightened and envious of you. Be completely indifferent to them. Bless them and forget them. If the person who has unkind feelings towards you is someone close to you and it is not possible to forget him, then love him. Do not try to "forgive" someone as that forms a feeling of superiority and hurts them and provokes them all the more. Do not even refer to the thing which the person has done to you, and if you can ignore the whole man, do so, or ignore that aspect of his relationship with you.
- Art and Artificial
The outer does show the inner development - but in its own way.
But when we apply the perverted and false (though called modern) scale of values, we demand standards from this manifestation which are contrary to it.
We apply the laws of darkness (ignorance) to light and find that the light is not luminous.
The "outer" to the soul is the mind: the body is the "outer" to the vital, except the light that shines in and through the eyes.
- Instrument
Though man is an instrument in His hand, His Will has to work through him!
Hence, little man deservedly shares God's glory.
Krishna readily admits this one.
Often we find this principle violated in human institutions.
The boss is the power behind all activities - but without the staff his ideas will be still-born.
The instrument must be glorified too, else, it is ingratitude and a disruptive influence.