- Insult
What someone says is his opinion - who says it is an insult?
There is nothing called "bear insult"
It is 'give him the God-given gift of Freedom of Speech".
It is already there.
- 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.
- Humility and Discipleship
Even scientists indirectly admit there is an orderly chaos or a chaotic order in the universe. The universe is expanding - meaning, the planets, etc., are not "stationary" in their orbits and are, while coursing their orbits, ever changing them! They are running, but not running amuck!
Who governs them? The earth is not so solidly "rooted" as our own secure hallucination would have it! Its solid crust is a thin paper afloat on the swimming pool.
That we find Belgium today where it was last year is pure accident - if not a myth! For it is a big floating boathouse, moored to nothing! The face of the earth has indeed changed over aeons! Yet, shall we not get over our foolish notion of its "eternal" solid reality, and repose faith in That Godhead which has preserved the Order in this chaos.
The reservoir may be full - and even the pipe may be big. If you place the pipe over the water level, the water will not flow. Even if the pipe is small - if it is lower than water level water it will flow.
Humility and discipleship alone are needed to gain knowledge.
- See God in all
But - what is "God"?
How d0 you explain "heat" - to the fish in the ocean or an Eskimo?
You take him near a stove and make him touch it - "That is heat".
Even so is Puja or meditation.
- 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.