- Senses
The senses cannot perceive Reality; but accept it, on faith.
- Kama
The world has not been tied around our necks, we tie ourselves to the world.
But we can tie ourselves to God.
Two young men were standing on the bank of a river which was in spate.
They saw a black 'bundle of blankets' or something that looked like it, hurtling downstream.
One man wanted to jump into the stream and salvage 'the bundle' - it could fetch them some money!
The other man, however, felt that the risk was not worth the value.
Yet, the impetuous young man rushed headlong into the stream and swam towards 'the bundle'.
He had caught it, but, instead of swimming back towards the bank, he, too, was floating downstream with 'the bundle'.
The friend, standing on the bank of the river, began to shout - "Let it go and come away, if it is too heavy."
But the drowning man replied: "I am prepared to leave 'the bundle', but 'the bundle' of blankets does not let me go".
You know why? It was not a 'bundle' of blankets, but a wild bear which was drowning in the river and, when it saw this man swimming towards it, caught hold of him!
We ourselves seek this 'bundle' on account of Kama - desire, and later cry aloud that it has caught hold of us.
- 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.
- Meta-physics
The time has come to end all wordy warfare and meta-physical squabbles.
After physics, metaphysics.
True, everything up to the Ultimate can be covered in this specious "after".
But, we do recognise in the realm of metaphysics, the two distinct regions where two different laws operate - the lowlands of reason and the up country of intuition.
The climate is entirely different, and the wearing apparel, too.
If you go with the lowland costume - mind, logic and reasoning, into the upcountry of Revelation, you will catch cold!
Though modern (Einstein's) theories contradict and cancel the older (Newtonian) theories in physics, yet, the latter are effective in their own limited spheres.
In the same way, Gaudapada laughs at theories of creation and Karma which, however, operate ill planes lower than absolute idealism.
- Violence
If a man uses violence under provocation, he is bringing himself down to the level of the one who has provoked him.
To be violent is to show weakness.