- Life and Death
The Sannyasi who thinks of the after-life does not think of "death".
In this life, he contemplates future life - eternal life.
He who lives only for this life, lives in death!
We should not tarry in negative - but jump to positive at once.
- One
There is only one religion for me - as there is only one mother.
The one-year old child has no need to call that mother by any name. That is better.
But later, when the boy is confronted with other women, he wants to distinguish his mother from others and so knows his mother's name.
Only when we come across other faiths do we feel a need to give our religion a name.
It is, however, wrong to say that only my mother is capable of bearing children and not yours!
- Past and Present
You cherish your father's wealth and not the inherited disease.
If you have inherited unhealthy customs too, shake them off.
- I Would vs I Should!
Sadhana - spiritual practice, in daily life, is not 'to do as I would', but 'to do as I should'.
How many of us can do this?
Unless we can detach ourselves from the little self, what we feel we 'should', is but another expression of the same 'should', with a new excuse.
Unless we can take our stand on Dharma (right conduct) and look at ourselves as an object, we cannot do this.
There was the case of a brother of a King, who had committed a crime, and promptly went over to the King and asked to be punished by cutting his arms away.
If you can do that, you know what you 'should'.
Else, you should have a Guru and Sastra.
- Existence
Scientists arc studying stars two billion light years away - which do not exist now!
If they do not exist - how can they study non-existence!
Yet they can - for the star exists as a travelling image.
Puzzles:
1.What is existence and what is non-existence?
2. To the All-seeing eye, how will all this appear?
Either as Eternal Existence or Eternal Non-existence?