- Desire and Pleasure
It is common knowledge to students of psychology that Desire or Craving, the Urge, is really a sensation of pain.
The second stage is the attainment of the desired object or experience.
Take drinking of beer for example. It is admitted that the first time, beer tasted bad - it was painful drinking it.
Beer has not changed, it is painful even now.
Second stage too, is pain.
But since habit has made the second stage, a relieving of the tension created by the first, it is associated or identified with the third stage - quiescence of mind - which is happiness.
- Free-Thinking
Before declaring oneself to be a free-thinker, and preaching the message of free-thinking, give that freedom to all!
Then perhaps you will keep quiet.
- Soma
Freshly pressed juice could not intoxicate - this English word is unfortunate!
"Toxic"- intoxicate - is to introduce some toxic matter into the system.
Soma invigorated the performer of the Yajna.
- Caste
I believe that the caste - the racial conflicts - are not so much religious or ethnic as political, social and economic conflicts.
Once inequalities in opportunity and status are removed , all concerned perceive not only the meaning but the need for division of labour based on talent - Guna) and occupation - Karma) that the caste system implied - and, though grudgingly, concede that these can even be inherited.
Ford's son is a Ford - the Queen's son is the future King.
The Fact that caste is termed Varna has no racial bearing.
The labourer who works in the sun most of the day is dark; the Kshatriya - warrior is ruddy; the sheltered Vaisya and Brahmin are light skinned - the austere Brahman becoming pale, and the rich Vaisya, rosy.
When you say that in the eyes of God there is no evil, how do you account for His incarnation to destroy evil?
God, being omniscient, knows our limitation and hence that we see evil. He comes to remove that - from our view.
Just as a Mother knows that a doll is not a child. But she knows, too, that her little daughter treats it as her baby, and so she gives her the doll.
- Atheist
Should he be left alone?
Why do we stand at street corners and preach?
It is like a mother who finds her baby is not crying for food and consults the doctor knowing that it is ill!
An atheist is not contented, but morbidly satisfied.